pal works in ecclesiastical architecture are the churches of San Gioi-gio Maggiore and II Santissimo Redemptore at Venice, the atrium and cloister at the convent Delia Carita, and tha facade of San Francesco della Vigna in the same city. Palladio died at Vicenza Aug. 6, 1580. He wrote a work on architecture which is highly prized. The best edition is that published at Vicenza in 4 vols. (1776). See Quatremere de C^uincy, Histoire des plus celebres architectes; Temanza, IV^rt degli architetti Vene- ziani; Ticozzi, Dizionario, s. v.; Chambers, Cyclop. s. V. ; English Cyclop, s. v.
Palladium, a name among the ancient Greeks and Romans of an image o^ Pallas (q. v.), upon the careful keeping of which in a sanctuary the public welfare was believed to depend. The Palladium of Troy is particu- larly celebrated. According to the current myth, it was thrown down from heaven by Zeus, and fell on the plain of Troy, where it was picked up by Ilns, the found- er of that city, as a favorable omen. In the course of time the belief spread that the loss of it would be fol- lowed by the fall of the cit}' ; it was therefore stolen by Ulysses and Diomede. Several cities afterwards boasted of possessing it, particularly Argos and Athens. Other accounts, however, affirm that it was not stolen by the Greek chiefs, but carried to Italy by jEneas ; and the Romans said that it was preserved in the temple of Vesta, but so secretly that even the Pontifex Maximus might not behold it. All images of this name were somewhat coarsely hewn out of wood. — Chambers, Cy- clopi. s. V.
Palladius of Hp:len-opolis, an Eastern ecclesi- astic, flourished in the 5th centurj'. His name occurs repeatedly in the ecclesiastical and literary history of the early part of the 5th centurj'. Very little is known of him except from his own records in the Lausiac History, of which he is the reputed author. He was probably born in or about 367. He seems to have been a Galatian, and a companion or disciple of Evagrius of Pontus. In two places of his history he refers to his being a long time in Galatia and at Ancy- ra, but these passages do not prove that he was born there. He embraced a solitary life at the age of twenty, which, if his birth was in 367, would be in 387. The places of his residence at successive periods can only be conjectured from incidental notices in the Lausiac His- tory. Tillemont places at the commencement of his ascetic career his abode with Elpidius of Cappadocia, in some caverns of Mount Lucas, near the banks of the .Jordan, and his residence at Bethlehem, and other places in Palestine. Tillemont supposes that it was at this time that he saw several other saints who dwelt in that country, and among them perhaps St. Jerome, of whom his impressions, derived chiefly if not wholly from the representations of Posidonius, were by no means favor- able. Palladius first visited Alexandria in the consul- ship of the emperor Theodosius the Great, i. e. in 388 ; and by the advice of Isidorus, a presbyter of that citj', placed himself under the instruction of Dorotheus, a solitary', whose mode of life was so austere that Palladius was obliged by sickness to leave him without complet- ing the three years which he had intended to stay. Having remained a short time near Alexandria, he took up his abode for a year among the solitaries in the mountains of the desert of Nitria, who numbered five thousand, and whose dwelling-place and manner of life he describes. From Nitria he proceeded farther into the wilderness to the district of the cells, where he arrived the year after the death of 3Iacarius the Egyp- tian (300 or 391). Here he remained nine years, three of which he spent as companion oflMacarius the young- er, the Alexandrian. He was for a time the companion and disciple of Evagrius of Pontus, who was charged with entertaining Origenistic opinions. How long he remained with Evagrius is not known. But he did not confine himself to one spot: he visited cities or villages or deserts, for the purpose of conversing with
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