Chapter Parallel to Parisina of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

and slew him, then sat down to drink and be merry together; but, the wine being poisoned, all the three rioters found Death under the tree as the old man had said.

Pari Passu At the same time; in equal degrees; two or more schemes carried on at once and driven forward with equal energy, are said to be carried on pari passu, which is Latin for equal strides or the equally measured pace of persons marching together.

“The cooling effects of surrounding matter go on nearly pari passu with the heating.”- Grove: Correlation of Physical Forces, p. 64.

Parian Chronicle A chronological register of the chief events in the mythology and history of ancient Greece during a series of 1,318 years, beginning with the reign of Cecrops, and ending with the archonship of Diognetos. It is ongraved on Parian marble, and was found in the island of Paros. It is one of the Arundelian Marbles (q.v.).

Parian Verse Ill-natured satire; so called from Archilochos, a native of Paros.

Parias or Pariahs. The lowest class of the Hindu population, below the four castes. Literally drummers, from parai, a large drum.

“The lodgers overhead may perhaps be able to take a more comprehensive view of public questions; but they are political Helots, they are the Pariahs of our constitutional Brahminism.”- The Times, March 20, 1867.

Paridel A young gentleman that travels about and seeks adventure, because he is young, rich, and at leisure. (See below.)

“Thee, too, my Paridel, she marked thee there,
Stretched on the rack of a too-easy chair,
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess
The pains and penalties of idleness.”
Pope: Dunciad, iv. 341.

   Sir Paridel. A male coquette, whose delight was to win women's hearts, and then desert them. The model was the Earl of Westmoreland. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. iii. cant. 10; bk. iv. c. 1.)

Paris or Alexander. Son of Priam, and cause of the siege of Troy. He was hospitably entertained by Menelaos, King of Sparta; and eloped with Helen, his host's wife. This brought about the siege. Post Homeric tradition says that Paris slew Achilles, and was himself slain either by Pyrrhos or Philoctetes. (Homer: Iliad.)
   Paris. Kinsman to the Prince of Verona, the unsuccessful suitor of Juliet. (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet.)
   Paris. Rabelais says that Gargantua played on the Parisians who came to stare at him a practical joke, and the men said it was a sport “par ris” (to be laughed at); wherefore the city was called Par-'is. It was called before Leucotia, from the “white skin of the ladies.” (Greek, leukotes, whiteness.) ( Gargantua and Pantagruel, bk. i. 17.)
   Paris, called by the Romans “Lutetia Parisiorum” (the mud-city of the Parisii) The Parisii were the Gallic tribe which dwelt in the “Ile du Palais” when the Romans invaded Gaul. (See Isis.)
   Mons. de Paris. The public executioner of Paris.
   Little Paris.
   The “Galleria Vittorio Emanuele” of Milan is so called on account of its brilliant shops, its numerous cafés, and its general gay appearance.
   Brussels, the capital of Belgium, situate on the Senne, is also called “Little Paris.”

Paris-Garden A bear-garden; a noisy, disorderly place. In allusion to the bear-garden so called on the Thames bank-side, kept by Robert de Paris in the reign of Richard II.

“Do you take the court for a Paris-garden?”- Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3.

Parish Registers Bills of mortality. George Crabbe, author of The Borough, has a poem in three parts, in ten-syllable verse with rhymes, entitled The Parish Register.

Parisian Made at Paris; after the mode of Paris; a native of Paris; like a native of Paris.