A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

PAULA. PAULINA. 14I
after Memmils had departed for Mytilene. Find- itation. Her subsequent history is unknown.
ing that Memmius had abandoned his design of (Herodian v. 6. ~ 1; Dion Cass. lxxix. 9; Eckhe",
erecting the edifice with which the wall in ques- vol. vii. p. 259.) [W. R.]
tion would have interfered, he consented to bestir
himself ill the matter; but thinking that the Areiopagus would not retract their decree without the )
consent of Memmius, he wrote to the latter, urging / z:> < l fa B
his request in an elegant epistle, which is still t
extant (ad Farn. xiii. 1. Comp. ad Att. v. 11,
19). C.P.M.]
PATRO'PHILUS (rlaTrpJdphose), bishop of
Scythopolis, and one of the leaders of the Eusebian
or semi-Arian party in the fourth century. He
was deposed at the council of Seleuceia (A. D. COI OF PAULA, IFE OF ELAGABALUS.
359) for contumacy, having refilsed to appear before the council to answer the charges of the presby-ter Dorotheus. (Socrat. H.E. ii. 40; Sozom.,K)
iv. 22.) He must have died soon after, for his
remains were disinterred and insultingly treated Xff m
(Theophanes, Chronographia) during the re-action B A B
which followed the temporary triumph of paganism
(A. D. 361-363) under Julian the apostate [J-
LIANUS]. Patrophilus appears to have been eminent for scriptural knowledge. Eusebius of Emesa COIN OF THE EMPEROR ELAGABALUS.
is said to have derived his expositions of Scripture
fiom the instructions of Patrophilus and Ensebius The latter coin was accidentally omitted in the
of Caesareia (Socrat. H. E., ii. 9); but Sixtus article ELACGAALus, and is therefore given here.
Senensis is mistaken in ascribing to Patrophilus PAULI'NA or PAULLI'NA. 1. DOmITIA
a translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew PAULINA, the sister of the emperor Hadrian (Dion
into Greek. (Sixtus Senens. Biblioth. Sancta, Cass. lxix. 11; Gruter, Inscr. p. cclii. n. 4).
lib. iv.; Le Long, Biblioth. Sacra, recensita ab 2. LOLLIA PAULINA. [LOLLIA, No. 2.]
-A. G. Masch. Pars ii. vol. ii. sect. i. ~ 23; Fabric. 3. POMPEIt PAULINA, the wife of Annaens?iblioth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 716. The scanty Seneca the philosopher, whom he married rather
notices of the life of Patrophilus have been late in life. She was probably the daughter of
collected by Tillemont, Mgnoires, vols. vi. Pompeius Paulinus, who commanded in Germany
vii.) [J. C. M.] in the reign of Nero. She seems to have been
PATROUS, PATROA (IlarTpos,'a), and in attached to her husband, who speaks of her with
Latin, Patrii Dii, are, properly speaking, all the affection, and mentions in particular the care
gods whose worship has been handed down in a which she took of his health (Senec. Ep. 104).
nation or a family from the time of their fathers, She was with her husband at dinner when the
whence in some instances they are the spirits of centurion came from Nero to tell Seneca that he
departed ancestors themselves. (Lucian, De.ort. must die. The philosopher received the intelliPereg. 36.) Zeus was thus a aeds 7rnrp0os at gence with calmness, embraced his wife, and bade
Athens (Paus. i. 3. ~ 3, 43. ~ 5), and among the her bear their separation with firmness; but as
Heracleidae, since the heroes of that race traced she begged that she might die with him, he
their origin to Zeus. (Apollod. ii. 8. ~ 4.) Among yielded to her entreaties, and they opened their
the Romans we find the divinities avenging the veins together. Nero, however, unwilling to indeath of parents, that is, the Furiae or Erinnyes, cur a reputation for unnecessary cruelty, comdesignated as Patrii Dii. (Cic. in Verr. ii. 1, 3; manded her veins to be bound up. Her life was
comp. Liv. xl. 10.) But the name was also ap- thus spared; and she lived a few years longer,
plied to the gods or heroes from whom the gentes but with a paleness which testified how near she
derived their origin. (Serv. ad Aen. iii. 832; had been to death. This is the account of Tacitus
Stat. Theb. iv. 111.) [L. S.] (Aina. xv. 60-64), which differs somewhat from
Q. PATU'LCIUS, one of the accusers of Alilc that in Dion Cassius (lxi. 10, lxii. 25), who relates
dCe Vi in B. c.52 (Ascon. in iloon. p. 54, ed. Orelli). the event to the disparagement of Seneca.
It may have been this same Patulcius who owed PAULI'NA. We learn from Ammianus MarCicero some money, which Atticus exerted himself cellinus that the wife of Maximinus I. was of
in obtaining for his friend in B. c. 44 (Patulcianusm amiable disposition, seeking to mitigate by gentle
nomnel, Cie. ad. Att. iv. 18). counsels the savage temper of her husband, by
PATULEIUS, a rich Roman eques in the reign whom, if we can trust the statements of Syncellus
of Tiberius (Tac. Ann. ii. 48). and Zonaras, she was eventually put to death.
PATZO, GREGO'RIUS. [GRF.GORIUS,NO.30, No ancient historian, however, has mentioned her
i. 310.] name, but numismatologists have conjectured that
PAULA, JU'LIA CORNE'LIA, the first wife certain coins bearing on the obverse the words
of Elagabalus, a lady, according to Herodian, of DIVA PAULINA, and on the reverse CONSECRATIO,
very noble descent. The marriage, which was ce- a legend which proves that they were struck after
lebrated with great pomp at Rome, took place, it the decease of the personage whose effigy they
would appear A. D. 219, soon after the arrival of bear, ought to be considered as belonging to this
the youthful emperor from Asia. Paula was di- princess. (Amm. Marc. xiv. 1. ~ 8; Zonar. xii.
vorced in the course of the following year, deprived 16; Syncell. C/iron. s. A. M. 5728; Eckhel, vii.
of the title of Augusta, and reduced to a private p. 296). [WV. t.]