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LEFT PADUCAH 78 PAGAN tonio, are less remarkable for architec- ture than for their paintings and inte- rior decorations. Manufactures woolens, silks, ribbons, and leather. Fop. prov- ince about 575,000; city, about 120,000. PADUCAH, a city and county-seat of McCracken co., Ky.; at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and on the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis, the Illinois Central and the Chi- cago, Burlington and Quincy railroads; 48 miles N. E. of Cairo, 111. It con- tains a court house, high school. United States Government Building, the Illinois Central Railroad Hospital, waterworks, electric light and street railroad plants, P.fflSTUM, an ancient city of Lucania, in southern Italy, in the N. W. extremity of that province, about 4 miles S. E. from the mouth of the Silarus (Selo), and upon a bay of the Tyrrhenian Sea, called Sinus Psestanus (now Gulf of Sa- lerno). It was a place of importance and great beauty in the time of the Romans, and renowned for the splendid roses grown in its neighborhood, which bloomed twice a year. PAEZ (pa-eth'), JOSE ANTONIO, one of the founders of South American independence; born of Indian parents near Acarigua, Venezuela, in 1790. He entered the patriot army in 1810, rose to TEMPLE OF CERES AT P^STUM National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. There are manufactories of chairs, furniture, tobacco, farming implements, etc. It also has a shipbuilding plant, tobacco warehouses, and tobacco factories. Pop. (1910) 22,760; (1920) 24,735. P^AN, in classical mythology, a name given to Apollo. Also the ancient choral song addressed to Apollo, named after its burden (Greek io paian). It was sung sometimes before battle, and sometimes after a victory. Also a song of triumph or rejoicing. PAES, or PAEZES, an Indian tribe living in the mountains of Colombia. They were formerly a powerful, warlike tribe now reduced to about 2,000. "They live in villages and follow agriculture and though inhabiting a cold region wear few clothes. general of division in 1819, and took a leading part in the battle of Carabobo, which secured the independence of Co- lombia in 1821. At first he acted in concert with Bolivar, but in 1829 he placed himself at the head of the revolu- tion which culminated in the independ- ence of Venezuela, of which he was the first president. He spent the latter part of his life in the United States. He died in exile in New York, May 7, 1873. PAGAN (Latin, pagus = a village), a heathen, an idolater; one who worships idols or false gods (applied to one who is not a Christian, a Jew, or a Mo- hammedan). The last use of the word dates from the 4th century. Trench says that the first use of the word in this sense is in an edict of the Emperor Valentinian A. D. 368. When Christian- ity was first preached, the cities were quicker to embrace the faith than the