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 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads; 48 miles N. E. of Cairo, Ill. It contains a court house, high school, United States Government Building, the Illinois Central Railroad Hospital, waterworks, electric light and street railroad plants, PAGAN PÆSTUM, 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 Pæstanus (now Gulf of Salerno). 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-ēth'), JOSÉ 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 PÆSTUM National and State banks, and several general of division in 1819, and took a daily and weekly newspapers. There leading part in the battle of Carabobo, are manufactories of chairs, furniture, which secured the independence of Cotobacco, farming implements, etc. It also has a shipbuilding plant, tobacco warehouses, and tobacco factories. Pop. (1910) 22,760; (1920) 24,735.
PÆAN, 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.