too long he lopped off the redundant part. _Greek
Mythology._

Critic, more cruel than Procrustes old,
Who to his iron bed by torture fits
Their nobler parts, the souls of suffering wits.

Mallet, _Verbal Criticism_ (1734).

=Proctor's Dogs= or _Bull-Dogs_, the two "runners" or officials who
accompany a university proctor in his rounds, to give chase to
recalcitrant gownsmen.

And he had breathed the proctor's dogs [_was a member of Oxford or
Cambridge University_].

Tennyson, prologue of _The Princess_ (1830).

=Prodigal= (_The_), Albert VI. duke of Austria (1418, 1439-1463).

=Prodigy of France= (_The_). Guillaume Bud['e] was so called by Erasmus
(1467-1540).

=Prodigy of Learning= (_The_). Samuel Hahnemann, the German, was so called
by J. P. Richter (1755-1843).

=Professor= (_The_). The most important member of the party gathered about
the social board in O. W. Holmes's _Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_
(1858).

=Profound= (_The_), Richard Middleton, an English scholastic divine
(*-1304).

=Profound Doctor= (_The_), Thomas Bradwardine, a schoolman. Also called
"The Solid Docter"[TN-106] (*-1349).

AEgidius de Columna, a Sicilian schoolman, was called "The Most Profound
Doctor" (*-1316).

=Progne= (2 _syl._), daughter of Pand[=i]on, and sister of Philom[=e]la.
Progn[^e] was changed into a swallow, and Philomela into a
nightingale.--_Greek Mythology._

As Progn[^e] or as Philomela mourns ...
So Bradamant laments her absent knight.

Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_, xxiii. (1516).

=Prome'thean Unguent= (_The_), made from the extract of a herb on which
some of the blood of Prom[=e]theus (3 _syl._), had fallen. Medea gave
Jason some of this unguent, which rendered his body proof against fire
and warlike instruments.

=Prome'theus= (3 _syl._) taught man the use of fire, and instructed him
in architecture, astronomy, mathematics, writing, rearing cattle,
navigation, medicine, the art of prophecy, working metal, and, indeed,
every art known to man. The word means "forethought," and forethought is
the father of invention. The tale is that he made man of clay, and, in
order to endow his clay with life, stole fire from heaven and brought it
to earth in a hollow tube. Zeus, in punishment, chained him to a rock,
and sent an eagle to consume his liver daily; during the night it grew
again, and thus his torment was ceaseless, till Hercul[^e]s shot the