situated sixty Leagues from the continent. He stayed there nunc months, during which time he wrote, in com- pany with a Cochin-Chinese priest, instructions for the religious worship, and corrected several works translat- ed from the French. In December, 1784, he joined again the king of Cochin-China, and soon after wi n<
in person to solicit the assistance of Louis XVI for his friend, taking along with him the six-year-old son of the Asiatic prince. He arrived at Lorient February, 17*7. His embassy was a successful one. France en- gaged to -end lour frigates and nearly two thousand soldier- to ( 'ochin-( 'hina. and obtained in compensation the principal harbor of that country. Touron. Louis .WI appointed Pigneau his plenipotentiary, and had his prebend presented by him to Nguyen-Ants. The bishop, who had received rich presents himself, em- barked for Pondicherry with the young prince, carry- ing to count Thomas Conway, governor-general of the Ik ii.li settlements, the blue cordon he had obtained for him, with the direction to prepare and command in person the projected expedition; bul various obstacles, among others the Revolution, prevented it. and the could only equip two little ships, which he
loaded with ammunition, -tins. etc. Count Conway
put also at his disposition a frigate, on hoard of which
io( lochin-* hina, H here he joined the king in
December, 1789. The arrival of these subsidies, the
i rtions of the French officers, who in a short
ipped a powerful fleet, and organized an army
of six thousand soldiers after the European fashion, gave
the victory to the king. The bishop was hopeful of
turning to the advantage of religion the influ he
had won. when he died of dysentery, Oct. 9, 1799. In August, 1861, the French government restored the tomb of Pigneau de Behaine,and proclaimed ii French property. Hoefer, Wouv. Biog. Generate, xl, 224.
Pignone, Simone, an Italian painter, who, accord- ing to Oretti, was horn at Florence in the year 1614,
studied with Fabrizio BoSChi, afterwards with I'a —
Bignano, and lastly with Francesco Furini, whose man- ner he adopted, though he improved his coloring by visiting Venice, and Btudying the works of the great masters, particularly those Of Titian and Tintoretto.
After his return to Florence he distinguished himself by several works which he executed for the churches,
and which were greatly admired for the delicacy and
beauty of the coloring. The most esteemed of these are. St. Michael discomfiting tin Rebel Angels, in the Nun/.iata: St. Louis, Kin;/ of France, Distributing his Wealth to the Poor, in S. Felicita; and an altar-piece, Monte Oliveto. His most admired works, however, are to be found in the collections of the nobility. These are of Small size, and from sacred Subjects. There are
also some of his picture.- in the Florentine Gallery. He was loud ol painting mythological subjects, the peculiar character of which afforded a fine opportunity of dis- playing his marvellous skill in flesh tints. Lanzi and Carlo Maratti agree as to hi- being among the best of the Florentine painters of his time. His death oc- curred in L69& See S| ner, Biog. Hist, of tin Fine
.1 //.-•. ii, 095.
Pignorius, Laurentius, a noted Italian ecclesias- tic, celebrated especially as an antiquary, was bom at Padua in 1571, and flourished at Treviso, where he held a canonry. He died of the plague in 1631. He collected a cabinet of medal- and other curiosities of rare extent and value. His principal work is an at- tempt to explain the famous l-iae Table, a relic of Egyptian antiquity, covered with figures of divinities. symbols, and hieroglyphs. The table is supposed by Warburton to belong to the latest period of ancient Egypt. Pignorius also wrote a treatise, In Servis <t • urn in apud ceteres Ministeriis: — Antiquities of Padua, etc. See Nouv. Diet. Hist. s. v.
Pi-hahi'roth (Heb. Pi-hachiroth', PTPnn -2, understood by some to be of Hebrew etymology, and rendered mouth nf tin gorges; Sept. f) tiravXie, to gtC- lia ElptliS, Et'owc ; Vulg. Phikahiroth), a place before or at which the Israelites encamped, at the close of the third march from Rameses, when they went out of Egypt. Pi-hahiroth was before Migdol, and on either hand were Baal-zephon and the sea (Exod. xiv. •_', :»; Numb, xxxiii. 7, 8). The name is probably that of a natural locality, from the unlikelihood that there should have been a town or village in both pan- ol the country where it is placed in addition to Migdol and Baal-zephon, which seem to have been, ii not towns, at least military stations, and it- name i- susceptible of an Egyptian etymology giving a sense apposite to this idea. The first part of the word is apparently treated by its punctuation as a separate prefix i Numb, xxxiii. 8), and it would therefore appear to he the masculine def- inite article /'•. /'■'. or Pi. Jablunsky proposed the ( 'optic pi-A chirot, " the place \\ hen sedge grows," and this, or a similar name, the late M. Fulgence Frc.-tiel recognised in the modem Ghuweybet el-bus, "the bed ol reeds." near Ras Atakah. There is another Ghuwey- bet el-bus near Suez, and such a name would of course depend for its permanence upon the continuance of a vegetation subject to change. Migdol appears to have been a common name for a frontier watch-tower. See Migdol. Baal-zephon we take to have had a similar meaning to that of Migdol. See Baal-zephon. We should expect, therefore, thai the encampment would have been in a depression, partly marshy, having on either band an elevation marked hy a watch-tower (Smith). It is evident thai so vague a circumstance as the presence of reeds, which are common in any moist place n< ar Sue/, cannot serve to determine the locality,