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Pfennig

or PFENNING, a small copper coin of various values, current in Germany and the neighboring states.

The pfennig of the German empire is the hundredth part of the mark..

PFLEIDERER a PHALAROPE German one day. Phœbus represented the dangers to which this would expose him; but in vain. He undertook the aërial jour ney. The flying horses immediately departed from the usual track. Phaëton repented too late of his rashness; heaven and earth were threatened with a universal conflagration, when Jupiter struck the rider with a thunderbolt, and hurled him headlong down into the river Po.

His body, consumed with fire, was found by the nymphs of the place. There was a drama by Euripides on Phaëton. Also an open carriage like a chaise, on four wheels, and drawn by two horses.

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