Pallăs, ădis and ădos, f., = Παλλάς.
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.—
B Transf.
1 Oil : infusā Pallade, Ov. Tr. 4, 5, 4: pinguis, id. H. 19, 44.—
2 The olive-tree : dat quoque baciferam Pallada rarus ager, Ov. Am. 2, 16, 8.—
3 The Palladium : Helenum raptā cum Pallade captum, Ov. M. 13, 99: Pallade conspectā, id. Tr. 2, 293.—
4 The number seven , Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6; Mart. Cap. 7, § 738.—
5 For Vesta , because the Palladium stood in the temple of Vesta: Pallados ignes, Prop 4 (5), 4, 45.—
II Deriv.
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.—
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.