Jean Ingelow, _Persephone_. =Pomoma.= The incomparable maid-of-work, custodian, novelist, comedienne, tragedienne, and presiding genius of Rudder Grange. Her _chef d’œuvre_ is the expedient of posting the premises “_To be Sold for Taxes_,” to keep away peddlers of trees, etc., in her employers’ absence.--Frank Stockton, _Rudder Grange_ (1879). =Pompey=, a clown; servant to Mrs. Overdone (a bawd).--Shakespeare, _Measure for Measure_ (1603). =Pompey the Great=, was killed by Achillas and Septimius, the moment the Egyptian fishing-boat reached the coast. Plutarch tells us they threw his head into the sea. Others say his head was sent to Cæsar, who turned from it with horror, and shed a flood of tears. Shakespeare makes him killed by “savage islanders” (2 _Henry VI._ act iv. sc. 1, 1598). =Pompil´ia=, a foundling, the putative daughter of Pietro (2 _syl._). She married Count Guido Franceschini, who treated her so brutally that she made her escape under the protection of a young priest named Caponsacchi. Pompilia subsequently gave birth to a son, but was slain by her husband. The babe had been a find i’ the filth-heap, sir, Catch from the kennel. There was found at Rome, Down in the deepest of our social dregs, A woman who professed the wanton’s trade ... She sold this babe eight months before its birth To our Violante (3 _syl._), Pietro’s honest spouse, ... Partly to please old Pietro, Partly to cheat the rightful heirs, agape For that same principal of the usufruct, It vexed him he must die and leave behind. R. Browning, _The Ring and the Book_, ii, 557, etc. =Ponce de Léon=, the navigator who went in search of the _Fontaine de Jouvence_, “qui fit rajovenir la gent.” He sailed in two ships on this “voyage of discoveries,” in the sixteenth century. Like Ponce de Léon, he wants to go off to the Antipodês in search of that _Fontaine de Jouvence_ which was fabled to give a man back his youth.--_Véra_, 130. =Pongo=, a cross between “a land-tiger and a sea-shark.” This terrible monster devastated Sicily, but was slain by the three sons of St. George.--R. Johnson, _The Seven Champions, etc._ (1617). =Ponoc´rates= (4 _syl._), the tutor of Gargantua.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_ (1533). =Pontius Pilate’s Body-Guard=, the 1st Foot Regiment. In Picardy the French officers wanted to make out that they were the seniors, and, to carry their point, vaunted that they were on duty on the night of the Crucifixion. The colonel of the 1st Foot replied, “If we had been on guard we should not have slept at our posts” (see _Matt._ xxviii. 13). =Pontoys= (_Stephen_), a veteran in Sir Hugo de Lacy’s troop.--Sir W. Scott, _The Betrothed_ (time, Henry II.). =Pony= (_Mr. Garland’s_), Whisker (_q.v._).