Horace’s _Ode_, xvi. i. is a palinode. Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard. Dr. Watts recanted in a poem the _praise_ he had previously bestowed on Queen Anne. =Palinu´rus=, the pilot of Æne´as. Palinurus, sleeping at the helm, fell into the sea and was drowned. The name is employed as a generic word for a steersman or pilot, and sometimes for a chief minister. Thus, Prince Bismarck might have been called the palinurus of William, emperor of Germany and king of Prussia. More had she spoke, but yawned. All nature nods ... E’en Palinurus nodded at the helm. Pope, _The Dunciad_, iv. 614 (1742). =Palisse= (_La_), a sort of M. Prudhomme; a pompous utterer of truisms and moral platitudes. =Palissy= (_Bernard, the potter_), succeeded, after innumerable efforts and privations, in inventing the art of enamelling stone ware. He was arrested and confined in the Bastille for Huguenot principles, and died there in 1589. =Palla´dio= (_Andrea_), the Italian classical architect (1518-1580). _The English Palladio_, Inigo Jones (1573-1653). =Palla´dium.= _Of Ceylon_, the deláda or tooth of Buddha, preserved in the Malegawa temple at Kandy. Natives guard it with great jealousy, from a belief that whoever possesses it acquires the right to govern Ceylon. When, in 1815, the English obtained possession of the tooth, the Ceylonese submitted to them without resistance. _Of Eden Hall_, a drinking-glass, in the possession of Sir Christopher Musgrave, Bart., of Edenhall, Cumberland. _Of Jerusalem._ Aladine, king of Jerusalem, stole an image of the Virgin, and set it up in a mosque, that she might no longer protect the Christians, but become the palladium of Jerusalem. The image was rescued by Sophronia, and the city taken by the crusaders. _Of Meg´ara_, a golden hair of King Nisus. Scylla promised to deliver the city into the hands of Minos, and cut off the talismanic lock of her father’s head while he was asleep. _Of Rome_, the ancīle or sacred buckler which Numa said fell from heaven, and was guarded by priests called Salii. _Of Scotland_, the great stone of Scone, near Perth, which was removed by Edward I. to Westminster, and is still there, preserved in the coronation chair. _Of Troy_, a colossal wooden statue of Pallas Minerva, which “fell from heaven.” It was carried off by the Greeks, by whom the city was taken, and burned to the ground. =Pallet=, a painter, in Smollett’s novel of _Peregrine Pickle_ (1751). The absurdities of Pallet are painted an inch thick, and by no human possibility could such an accumulation of comic disasters have befallen the characters of the tale. =Pal´merin of England=, the hero and title of a romance in chivalry. There is also an inferior one entitled _Palmerin d’Oliva._