=Pandemo´nium=, “the high capital of Satan and his peers.” Here the infernal parliament was held, and to this council Satan convened the fallen angels to consult with him upon the best method of encompassing the “fall of man.” Satan ultimately undertook to visit the new world; and, in the disguise of a serpent, he tempted Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit.--Milton, _Paradise Lost_, ii. (1665). =Pandi´on=, king of Athens, father of Procnê and Philome´la. None take pity on thy pain; Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee; Ruthless bears, they will not cheer thee; King Pandion he is dead; All thy friends are lapped in lead. Richard Barnfield, _Address to the Nightingale_ (1594). =Pandolf= (_Sir Harry_), the teller of whole strings of stories, which he repeats at every gathering. He has also a stock of _bon-mots_. “Madam,” said he, “I have lost by you to-day.” “How so, Sir Harry!” replies the lady. “Why, madam,” rejoins the baronet, “I have lost an excellent appetite.” “This is the thirty-third time that Sir Harry hath been thus arch.” We are constantly, after supper, entertained with the Glastonbury Thorn. When we have wondered at that a little, “Father,” saith the son, “let us have the Spirit in the Wood.” After that, “Now tell us how you served the robber.” “Alack!” saith Sir Harry, with a smile, “I have almost forgotten that; but it is a pleasant conceit, to be sure;” and accordingly he tells that and twenty more in the same order over and over again.--Richard Steele. =Pandolfe= (2 _syl._), father of Lélie.--Molière, _L’Etourdi_ (1653). =Pando´ra=, the “all-gifted woman.” So called because all the gods bestowed some gift on her to enhance her charms. Jove sent her to Prometheus for a wife, but Hermês gave her in marriage to his brother, Epime´theus (4 _syl._). It is said that Pandora enticed the curiosity of Epimetheus to open a box in her possession, from which flew out all the ills that flesh is heir to. Luckily the lid was closed in time to prevent the escape of Hope. More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with all their gifts, ... to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermês, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him [_Promētheus_] who had stole Jove’s ... fire. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, iv. 714, etc. (1665). ⁂ “Unwiser son” is a Latinism, and means “not so wise as he should have been;” so _audacior_, _timidior_, _vehementior_, _iracundior_, etc. =Pandos´to=, or _The Triumph of Time_, a tale by Robert Greene (1588), the quarry of the plot of _The Winter’s Tale_ by Shakespeare. =Panel= (_The_), by J. Kemble, is a modified version of Bickerstaff’s comedy _’Tis Well ’tis no Worse_. It contains the popular quotation: Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love; But why do you kick me downstairs?