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132 PASIMEL US. PASION.
Aristion* (ibid. cc. 24, 26, pp. 180, 183), and as I wall's Greece, vol. v. p. 128, that Pasimeluts was a
he lived probably after Nymphodorus (ibid. p. 1 80) Spartan officer commanding at Corinth. - [E. E.]
and before Heliodorus (p. 160), he may be conjec- PASINI'CUS (rIlao-i'tcos), a physician in the
tured to have lived in the second or first century fourth century after Christ, to whom one of St.
s.c. He is probably the physician quoted by As- Basil's letters is addressed. (Ep. 324, vol. iii.
clepiades Pharmacion ap. Gal. De Compos. Aledicam. p. 449, ed. Bened.) [Wr. A. G.]
sec. Locos, viii. 8, vol. xiii. p. 213. If, with Mead PA'SION (fliaxowv). 1. A Mergarian, was one
(De Numis quibusdan a Snzyrnaeis in Honorem of those who were employed by Cyrus the younger
lMedicorum percusis, p. 51) and Fabricius (Bibl. in the siege of Miletus, which had continued to
Graec. vol. xiii. p. 357, ed. vet.), we suppose that adhere to Tissaphernes; and, when Cyrus conlcertain coins with the name of Pasicrates upon imenced his expedition against his brother, in a. c.
them, were struck in honour of this physician, we 401, Pasion joined him at Sardis with 700 men.
may add to the above particulars, that he was a At Tarsus a number of his soldiers and of those of
native of Smyrna, and a follower of Erasistratus; Xenias, the Arcadian, left their standards for that
that his grandfather's name was Pasicrates, and his of Clearchus, on the declaration of the latter,
father's Capito; and that he was brother of Meno- framed to induce the Greeks not to abandon the endorus, and father of Metrodorus. [W. A. G.] terprise,that he would stand by them and share their
PAISIDAS or PASIA'DAS (rIaflSas or [Ia- fortunes in spite of the obligations he was under to
oar3as), an Achaean, was one of the deputies sent Cyrus. The prince afterwards permitted Clearchus
by the Achaeans to Ptolemy Philometor, to congra- to retain the troops in question, and it was from
tulate him on his attaining to manhood, B. c. 170. offence at this, as usually supposed, that Pasion
During their stay in Egypt, they interposed their and Xenias deserted the army at the Phoenician
good offices to prevent the further advance of An- sea-port of Myriandrus, and sailed away for Greece
tiochus Epiphanes, who had invaded the country, with the most valuable of their effects.. Cyrus disand even threatened Alexandria itself, but without played a politic forbearance on the occasion, and
effect. (Polyb. xxviii. 10, 16.) [E. H. B.] excited the Greeks to greater alacrity in his cause,
PASIME'LUS (laoulurLAos), a Corinthian, of by declining to pursue the fugitives, or to detain
the oligarchical party. When, in B. c. 393, the their wives and children, who were in safe keeping
democrats in Corinth massacred many of their in his garrison at Tralles. (Xen. Anab. i. 1. ~ 6, 2.
adversaries, who, they had reason to think, were ~ 3, 3. ~ 7, 4. ~.~ 7-9.)
contemplating the restoration of peace with Sparta, 2. A wealthy banker at Athens, was originally
Pasimelus, having had some suspicion of the design, a slave of Antisthenes and Archestratus, who were
wvas in a, gymnasium outside the city walls, with a also bankers. In their service he displayed great
body of young men assembled around him. With fidelity as well as aptitude for business, and was
these he seized, during the tumult, the Acroco- manumitted as a reward. (Dem. pro Ph/orm. pp. 957,
rinthus; but the fall of the capital of one of the 958.) Hereupon he appears to have set up a bankcolumns, and the adverse signs of the sacrifices, ing concern on his own account, by which, together
were omens which warned them to abandon their with a shield manufactory, he greatly enriched himposition. They were persuaded to remain in self, while he continued all along to preserve his
Corinth under assurances of personal safety; but old character for integrity, and his credit stood
they were dissatisfied with the state of public high throughout Greece. (Dem. pro Phorm. 1. c.,
affairs, especially with the measure which- had c. Tim. p. 1198, c. Plolycl. p. 1224, c. Callipp.
united Argos and Corinth, or rather had merged p. 1243.) He did not however escape an accuCorinth in Argos; and Pasimelus therefore and sation of fraudulently keeping back some money
Alcimene3 sought a secret interview with Praxitas, which had been entrusted to him by a foreigner
the Lacedemnionian commander at Sicyon, and from the Euxine. The plaintiff's case is stated in
arranged to admit him with his forces within the an oration of Isocrates (rparEv'ttco's), still extant.
long walls that connected Corinth with its port Pasion did good service to Athens with his money
Lechaeuxm. This was effected, and a battle en- on several occasions. Thus we hear of his furnishsued, in which Praxitas defeated the Corinthian, ing the state gratuitously with 1000 shields, togeBoeotian, Argive, and Athenian troops (Xen. 1ell. ther with five gallies, which he manned at his own
iv. 4. ~~ 4, &c; Diod. xiv. 86, 91; Andoc. de expense. He was rewarded with the freedom of
Pace, p. 25; Plat. Alenex. p. 245). Pasimelus, the city, and was enrolled in the demus of Acharnae.
no doubt, was one of the Corinthian exiles who (Dem. pro Phornz. pp. 953, 954, 957, c. Step/h. i.
returned to their city when the oligarchical party pp. 1110, 1127, ii. p. 1133, c. Caellipp. p. 1243,
regained its ascendancy there immediately after the c. Neaer. p. 1345.) He died at Athens in the
peace of Antalcidas, B. c. 387, and in consequence archonship of Dyscinetus, B. c. 370, after a lingerof it (Xen. Hell. v. 1. ~ 34); and he seems to have ing illness, accompanied with failure of sight. (Dem.
been the person through whom Euphron, having pro P/lorsm. p. 946, c. Steph. i. p. 1106, ii. p. 1132,
sent to Corinth for him, delivered up to the Lacedae- c. Tim. p. 1196, c. Callipp. p. 1239.) Towards
monians the harbour of Sicyon, in B. c. 367 (Xen. the end of his life his affairs were administered to
Hell. vii. 3. ~ 2). The language of Xenophon in a great extent by his freedman Phormion, to whom
titis last passage is adverse to the statement made he let his banking shop and shield manufactory,
above in the article EUPHRON, and also in Thirl- and settled in his will that he should marry his
widow Archippe, with a handsome dowry, and
e In the extract from Oribasius, given by Ang. undertake the guardianship of his younger son
Mai, in the fourth vol. of his "' Classici Auctores e Pasicles. (Dem. pro Phorm. passim, c. Step/h. i.
Vaticanis Codicibus editi" (Rom. 8vo. 1831), we p. 1110, ii. pp. 1135-1137, c. Tism. p. 1186, c.
should read vbo'v instead of IraE'pa, in p. 152, 1. Callipp. p. 1237.) [APOLLODORUS, No. 1.] From
23, and'ApsoTw-Y instead of'ApTi-v, in p. 158, the several notices of the subject in Demosthenes,
]L 10. we are able to form a tolerably close estimate of