PASIPHAE, daughter of Sol and Perseis, married King Minos II. of Crete, and bore Androgeos, Ariadne, and Phxdra. (See MINOTAURUS.) PASITHEA, )5/7-.1iiie.."-a. I. Or Aglaia, one of the Graces. 2. One of the NereIdes. PATARA, pat-ii-la, a Dorian coast city of Lycia, on the Xanthus, with a famous temple and winter oracle of Apollo (Pritareirs). PATAVIUM, pa-taz1-1-um (see PADUA). PATERCULUS, -Ins (see VELLEIUS). PATMOS, tat'-77/0.5, one of the Sporades. PATIGE, lat'-ra, anciently Ara., a city of Achaia, west of Rhium, with a temple of Diana.
PATRES, /3,7e-res, or PATRICII, the old privileged class at Rome, who enjoyed exclusively all political power and all the honours of the state, (For their political divi sion, see CENTURIA.) Socially they were sub divided into clans or houses, and each clan (gene) into a number of branches or families (familia). From them originally the Senatus (q. v.) was chosen, whence Patres is often synonymous with senators ; their privileges were, one by one, wrested from them by the Plebs (q. v.), and the old aristocracy was
swamped by a plutocracy.
PATRocbus, pa-trocclus, or Act:Vides (as grandson of Actor and tEgina), was son of Mencetius (of Opus) and StheneI6, and, when a youth, had to fly for the accidental homicide of Amphidamus's son Clysonymus to King Peleus, of Phthia, where he was received and became Achilles' friend. He went against Troy, and withdrew with Achilles (q. v.) ; but, at Nestor's entreaty, he was permitted to return to the war in the arms of Achilles, and inflicted great loss on the Trojans. He was at length killed by Hector, but Ajax and Menelaus recovered his body, which was buried with great honours by Achilles, who returned to the war to avenge his fallen friend by the death of Hector.