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

112 PANOPTES.. PANSA.
PANHELLE'NIUS (nlavcxkjIvtos), i. e. the PANSA, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
god common to, or worshipped by all the Hellenes indicated a person who had broad or splay feet.
or Greeks, occurs as a surname of the Dodonaean Pliny classes it with the cognorens Plauncus,
Zeus, whose worship had been transplanted by the Plautus, Scaurus (Plin H. N. xi. 45. s. 105).
Hellenes, in the emigration from Thessaly, to PANSA. Q. APPULEIUS, consul, B.C. 300,
Aegina. Subsequently, when the name Hellenes with M. Valerius Corvus V. He laid siege to
was applied to all the Greeks, the meaning of the Nequinum in Umbria, but was unable to take the
god's surname likewise became more extensive, and place (Liv. x. 5, 6, 9).
it was derived from the propitiatory sacrifice which PANSA, C. CORE'LLIUS, consul, A.D. 122,
Aeacus was said to have offered on behalf of all with M'. Acilius Aviola (Fasti).
the Greeks, and by the command of the Delphic PANSA, L. SE'STIUS, whose demand was reoracle, for the purpose of averting a famine (Paus. sisted by Q. Cicero in B. C. 54 (Cic. ad Qu. Fr. ii.
i. 44. ~ 13). On that occasion Aeacus designated 1 ).
Zeus as the national god of all the Greeks (Pind. PANSA, L. TITI'NIUS, with the agnomen
Nem. v. 19; Herod. ix. 7; Aristoph. Equit. SAccus, one of the consular tribunes B. C. 400, and
1253; Plut. Lycurg. 6). In Aegina there was a a second time in B. C. 396. (Liv. v. 12, 18; Fasti
sanctuary of Zeus Panhellenius, which was said to Capit.)
have been founded by Aeacus; and a festival, PANSA, C. VI'BIUS, consul B. C. 43 with
Panhellenia, was celebrated there. (Paus. i. 18. ~ A. Hirtius. His father and grandfather also bore
9; Miiller, Aeqinet. p. 18, &c. 155, &c.) [L. S.] the praenomen Caius, as we learn from coins in
PANIDES (Ilavl,7ls), a king of Chalcis on the which the consul is designated c. F. c. N. (see
Euripus, who is said to have given his opinion that below); but we know nothing of the history of his
Hesiod was superior as a poet to Homer, and hence family, save that his father was proscribed by
became proverbial as a man of perverse taste and Sulla (Dion Cass. xlv. 17), which was probably
judgment. (Philostr. Her. xviii. 2.) [L. S.] one reason that led Pansa to espouse the side of
PANODO'RUS, an Egyptian monk in the Caesar, of whom he was always a faithfill adhereign of the emperor Arcadius, wrote a Xpovo-ypd- rent, and to whom he was indebted for all the
~pLov, in which he found great fault with Eusebius, honours he obtained in the state. Pansa was trifrom whom, however, he took many of his state- bune of the plebs B.c. 51, in which year he tookic
ments. He is frequently mentioned by Syncellus. an active part, in conjunction with MI. Caelins, andl
(Voss. de list. Graee. p. 308, ed. Westermann; some of his other colleagues, in opposing the menaFabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 444.) sures which the consul M. Marcellus and others of
PANOMPHAEUS (lavocpaoos), i.e. the au- the aristocratical party were directing against
thor of all signs and omens, occurs as a surname of Caesar. (Cic. ad Faim. viii. 8. ~~ 6, 7.) Pansa
Helios (Quint. Smyrn. v. 624), and of Zeus, who was not employed by Caesar in any important
had a sanctuary on -the Hellespont between capes military command during the civil war, but lie
Rhoeteum and Sigeum. (Hom. II. viii. 250; Orph. continued to enjoy his confidence and esteem, and
Argon. 660; Ov. M/et. xi. 198.) [L. S.] received from him in B. C. 46 the government of
PA'NOPE (nIavo'7rT), the name of two my- Cisalpine Gaul as successor to M. Brutus. Cicero
thical personages, one a daughter of Nereus and speaks of his departure from the city at the end of
Doris (Hom. II. xviii. 45; Hes. TlIeog. 250), and December in that year to take the command of the
the other a daughter of Thespius. (Apollod. ii. 7. province, and says " that he was followed by ex~ 8.) [L. S.] traordinary good wishes on the part of all good
PANOPEUS (Ilavo7res), a son of Phocus and men, because he had relieved many from misery,
Asteropaea, and brother of Crisus or Crissus, with and had shown great good feeling and kindliness
whom he is said to have quarrelled even when yet in the recent calamities." (Cic. ad Fanz. xv. 17.)
in his mother's womb. -He accompanied Amphi- Pansa returned to Rome in B. c. 45; and in a. c.
tryon on his expedition against the Taphians or 44 Caesar nominated him and Hirtius, his colleague
Teleboans, and took an oath by Athene and Ares in the augurate, consuls for B. C. 43. Fromc that
not to embezzle any part of the booty. But he time the name of Pansa becomes so closely conbroke his oath, and as a punishment for it, his son nected with that of Hirtius, that it is impossible
Epeicis became unwavrlike. He is also mentioned to relate the history of the one without giving that
among the Calydonian hunters. (Hom. I. xxiii. of the other. The reader is therefore referred to
665; Lycophr. 935, &c.; Apollod. ii. 4. ~ 7; the article HIRTIUS, where he will find an accocunt
Pans. ii. 29. ~ 4, x. 4. ~ 1; Ov. Alet. viii. 312; of the events of the years B. c. 44 and 43, till the
Schol. ad Eur. Orest. 33.) [L. S.] fall of both the consuls at Mutina in the month of
PANO'PION, URBI'NIUS, was proscribed by April in the latter year, together with references to
the triumvirs in B. C. 43, but was preserved by the all the ancient authorities.
extraordinary fidelity of one of his slaves who ex- There is a large number of coins bearing the
changed dresses with his master, dismissed him by name of Pansa, of which we give three specimens
the back-door as the soldiers were entering the below. The first of these has on the obverse the
villa, then placed himself in the bed of Panopion,
and allowed himself to be killed as if he were the
latter. Panopion afterwards testified his gratitude
by erecting a handsome monument over his slave
(Val. Max. vi. 8. ~ 6; Macrob. Saturn. i. 11). A
Appian calls the master Appius (B. C. iv. 44); and'
Dion Cassius (xlvii. 10) and Seneca (de Benef iii.!
25) relate the event, but without mentioning any
name.
PANOPTES. [ARGUS.] COIN OF C. VIBIUS PANSA.