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1. Pallădĭus, a, um, v. 1. Pallas, II. A.

2. Pallădĭus, ii, m., a Roman surname. So, Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus, probably a Roman by birth, who lived in the fourth century of the Christian era, the author of a work on agriculture, in fourteen books.

1. Pallăs, ădis and ădos, f., = Παλλάς.

    1. A. Surname of the Greek goddess Athene, and hence of the corresponding Minerva of the Romans, the goddess of war and wisdom; the inventress of working in wool, and of the cultivation of the olive, on which account the olive-tree was sacred to her: Pallas Minerva est dicta, quod Pallantem Gigantem interfecerit, vel, sicut putabant, quod in Pallante palude nata est, Fest. p. 220 Müll.: Pallas . . . Proeliis audax, Hor. C. 1, 12, 20; Ov. M. 5, 263: Palladis ales, the owl, Ov. F. 2, 89: Pallados arbor, the olive-tree, id. A. A. 2, 518; cf.: rami Palladis, Verg. A. 7, 154: iratā Pallade, i. q. invitā Minervā, Ov. F. 3, 826.
    2. B. Transf.
      1. 1. Oil: infusā Pallade, Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 4: pinguis, id. H. 19, 44.
      2. 2. The olive-tree: dat quoque baciferam Pallada rarus ager, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 8.
      3. 3. The Palladium: Helenum raptā cum Pallade captum, Ov. M. 13, 99: Pallade conspectā, id. Tr. 2, 293.
      4. 4. The number seven, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6; Mart. Cap. 7, § 738.
      5. 5. For Vesta, because the Palladium stood in the temple of Vesta: Pallados ignes, Prop 4 (5), 4, 45.
  1. II. Deriv.
    1. A. Pallădĭus, a, um, adj., = Παλλάδιος, of or belonging to Pallas, Palladian: numen Palladium, i. e. Pallas, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 12: aegis, of Pallas, Luc. 7, 570: Palladiā gaudent silvā vivacis olivae, Verg. G. 2, 181; latices, oil, Ov. M. 8, 275: corona, an olive-wreath, id. A. A. 1, 727: arx, Troy, Prop. 3, 7 (4, 8), 42: arces, Athens, Ov. M. 7, 399: honores, shown to Pallas, id. H. 17, 133: pinus, the Argo, because built under Minerva’s direction, Val. Fl. 1, 475: metus, inspired by Pallas, id. 6, 408: forum, the Roman forum, because there stood a temple of Minerva, Mart. 1, 3, 8: Palladia Alba, because Domitian caused the Quinquatria in honor of Pallas to be annually celebrated there, id. 5, 1, 1; cf. Suet. Dom. 4: Palladia Tolosa, because the sciences flourished there, Mart. 9, 100, 3: manus, i. e. skilful, Stat. S. 1, 1, 5: ars, Mart. 6, 13, 2: lotos, the flute, id. 8, 51, 14.
    2. B. Subst.: Pallădĭum, ii, n., the image or statue of Pallas, which, in the reign of Ilus, fell from heaven at Troy, and during the Trojan war was carried off by Ulysses and Diomed, because the fate of the city depended on the possession of this image. It afterwards came from Greece to Rome, where Metellus saved it from the temple of Vesta when the latter was burned down, Verg. A. 2, 166; Sil. 9, 531; Ov. Tr. 3, 1, 29; Serv. ad Verg. A. 2, 227; Cic. Phil. 11, 10, 24; id. Scaur. 2, 48; Plin. 7, 43, 45, § 141; cf. Plaut. Ps. 4, 6, 1 sq.; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 31.