=Penruddock= (_Roderick_), a “philosopher,” or rather a recluse, who spent his time in reading. By nature gentle, kind-hearted, and generous, but soured by wrongs. Woodville, his trusted friend, although he knew that Arabella was betrothed to Roderick, induced her father to give his daughter to himself, the richer man; and Roderick’s life was blasted. Woodville had a son, who reduced himself to positive indigence by gambling. Sir George Penruddock was the chief creditor. Sir George dying, all his property came to his cousin, Roderick, who now had ample means to glut his revenge on his treacherous friend; but his heart softened. First, he settled all “the obligations, bonds, and mortgages, covering the whole Woodville property,” on Henry Woodville, that he might marry Emily Tempest; and next, he restored to Mrs. Woodville “her settlement, which in her husband’s desperate necessity, she had resigned to him;” lastly, he sold all his own estates, and retired again to a country cottage to his books and solitude.--Cumberland, _The Wheel of Fortune_ (1779). =Pentap´oliff=, “with the naked arm,” king of the Garaman´teans, who always went to battle with his right arm bare. Alifanfaron, emperor of Trap´oban, wished to marry his daughter, but, being refused, resolved to urge his suit by the sword. When Don Quixote saw two flocks of sheep coming along the road in opposite directions, he told Sancho Panza they were the armies of these two puissant monarchs met in array against each other.--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, I. iii. 4 (1605). =Pentecôte Vivante= (_La_), Cardinal Mezzofanti, who was the master of fifty or fifty-eight languages (1774-1849). =Penthe´a=, sister of Ith´oclês, betrothed to Or´gilus by the consent of her father. At the death of her father, Ithoclês compelled her to marry Bass´anes, whom she hated, and she starved herself to death.--John Ford, _The Broken Heart_ (1633). =Penthesile´a=, queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles. S. Butler calls the name “Penthes´ilê.” And laid about in fight more busily Than th’ Amazonian dame Penthesile. S. Butler, _Hudibras_. =Pen´theus= (3 _syl._), a king of Thebes, who tried to abolish the orgies of Bacchus, but was driven mad by the offended god. In his madness he climbed into a tree to witness the rites, and being descried was torn to pieces by the Bacchantes. As when wild Pentheus, grown mad with fear, Whole troops of hellish hags about him spies. Giles Fletcher, _Christ’s Triumph over Death_ (1610). _Pentheus_ (2 _syl._), a king of Thebes, resisted the introduction of the worship of Dyoni´sos (_Bacchus_) into his kingdom, in consequence of which the Bacchantes pulled his palace to the ground, and Pentheus, driven from the throne, was torn to pieces on Mount Cithæron by his own mother and her two sisters. He the fate [_may sing_] Of sober Pentheus. Akenside, _Hymn to the Naiads_ (1767).