PLU′TUS, the god of riches, was son of Jason and Ceres. He is described
as being blind and lame; blind because he so often injudiciously
bestows his riches, and lame because fortunes come so slowly.
PLU′VIUS. A name of Jupiter, because he had the rain in his control.
PODALIR′IUS. A famous surgeon, a son of Æsculapius, who was very
serviceable amongst the soldiers in the Trojan war.
POET, see Parnassus.
POETRY, see Apollo, Calliope, The Muses.
POISONOUS HERBS, see Circe.
POISONOUS LAKE, see Avernus.
POLL′EAR. Son of Siva, the Hindoo god of wisdom.
POL′LUX. Twin brother of Castor. Their father was Jupiter and their
mother Leda. He and his brother form the constellation Gemini. His
Greek name was Polydeuces. See Ædepol.
POLYBO′TES. One of the giants who made war against Jupiter.
POLYDEC′TES was turned into stone when Perseus showed him Medusa’s
head. See Perseus.
POLYDEU′CES. The Greek name of Pollux.
POLYHYM′NIA. Daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. One of the Muses who
presided over singing and rhetoric.
POLYPHE′MUS, one of the most celebrated of the Cyclopes, a son of
Neptune. He captured Ulysses and twelve of his companions, and it is
said that six of them were eaten. The rest escaped by the ingenuity of
Ulysses, who destroyed the Cyclop’s one eye with a firebrand.
“Charybdis barks and Polyphemus roars.”