s and Mice_.
Translated from the Greek into English verse by Parnell (1679-1717).

=Psyche= [_Si'.ke_], a most beautiful maiden, with whom Cupid fell in
love. The god told her she was never to seek to know who he was; but
Psych[^e] could not resist the curiosity of looking at him as he lay
sleep. A drop of the hot oil from Psych[^e]'s lamp falling on the
love-god, woke him, and he instantly took to flight. Psych[^e] now
wandered from place to place, persecuted by Venus; but after enduring
ineffable troubles, Cupid came at last to her rescue, married her, and
bestowed on her immortality.

This exquisite allegory is from the _Golden Ass_ of Apul[=e]ios.
Lafontaine has turned it into French verse. M. Laprade (born 1812) has
rendered it into French most exquisitely. The English version, by Mrs.
Tighe, in six cantos, is simply unreadable.

=Pternog'lyphus= ("_bacon-scooper_"), one of the mouse
chieftains.--Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, iii. (about 1712).

=Pternoph'agus= ("_bacon-eater_"), one of the mouse chieftains.

But dire Pternophagus divides his way
Thro' breaking ranks, and leads the dreadful day.
No nibbling prince excelled in fierceness more,--
His parents fed him on the savage boar.

Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, iii. (about 1712).

=Pternotractas= ("_bacon-gnawer_"), father of "the meal-licker,"
Lycom[)i]l[^e] (wife of Troxartas, "the bread-eater"). Psycarpas, the
king of the mice, was son of Lycom[)i]l[^e], and grandson of
Pternotractas.--Parnell, _Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, i. (about
1712).

=Public Good= (_The League of the_), a league between the dukes of
Burgundy, Brittany, and other French princes against Louis XI.

=Public'ola=, of the _Despatch Newspaper_, was the _nom de plume_ of Mr.
Williams, a vigorous political writer.

=Publius=, the surviving son of Horatius after the combat between the
three Horatian brothers against the three Curiatii of Alba. He
entertained the Roman notion that "a patriot's soul can feel no ties but
duty, and know no voice of kindred" if it conflicts with his country's
weal. His sister was engaged to Caius Curiatius, one of the three Alban
champions; and when she reproved him for "murdering" her betrothed, he
slew her, for he loved Rome more than he loved friend, sister, brother,
or the sacred name of father.--Whitehead, _The Roman Father_ (1714).

=Pucel.= _La bel Pucel_ lived in the tower of "Musyke."