appears that almost every villa possessed one, where the master ofthe house occasionally amused himself in fish- ing. The.lews.it seem-, likewise ei ills! ill, I e<l similar
ponds, as in describing his bride in the Canticles (vii, 1 1 Solomon saj -. " Thine eyes are like the fish-pools in Heshbon." See Fish. The word occurs several times of marshy pools, in contradistinction to the dry sands ofthedesert (Psa. cvii, 35 ; cxiv,8); "standing water"
(Isa. xxxv. 7: xli. 18), "a i 1." Such i 1- I ■• ing
commonly reedy, it is rendered -reeds" (Jer. li. 32). See Pool.
Pond, F.xnc ii. D.D., a noted Congregational minis- ter and writer, was born at Wrentham, Ma—., duly ■_".». 1791, and was educated at Brown University, where he graduated in 1813. He then decided to enter the min- istry, and began a course in theology with the c< lebrated Dr. Km i nous. In June, 1814, young Pond was licensed to preach, and in the spring of the following year was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Au- burn, Ma-s. lie left this charge in 1828 to become the conductor of the Spirit ofthe Pilgrims, a monthly pub- lication in Boston, lie was made professor ol theology in the theological seminary at Bangor in September, 1832, and continued in that responsible position until 1856, when he became president, and changed to the professorship of ecclesiastical history, and lectured on pastoral duties. He died dan. 21, 1882. I >r. Fond pub- lished reviews of Judson mi Baptism: — Mmithh Lectures { 1824] : Memoir of President l><ui<<- , 1827 i: - Memoir of Susanna .1 nthony ( 1827 i : .)/. moir of Count ■ : Memoir of J oh II ichlij t (1841): —Morning ofthe Reformation i 1842, 1 lowship with Romanism (1843 i i ■■ Young Pastor's
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Pone luctum, Magdalena. This is the begin- ning of a famous Easter hymn of uncertain date. Un- doubtedly it belongs to the Middle Ages, for in this hymn, as" well as in the Dies Tree (q. v.) and other Latin hymns, the same identification of Mary Magdalene with '• the woman that was a sinner'" (Luke vii, 37), which runs through all the theology of the Middle Ages, is ex- pressed. This hymn may be found in almost all collec- tions of Latin hymns, and the first verse runs thus :
"Pone luctum, Magdalena, Et sereua lacrymas; Ncm est jam Simonis coena, Non cur fletum exprimas; Causa? mille sunt lsetandi, Causa; mille exultandi: Alleluja resonet.
For the original, see Daniel, Thesaurus Hymnal, ii, 3C5 ; Trench, Sacred Latin Poetry, p. 159; Biissler, Auswahl altchristl. Lieder, p. 237 ; Simrock, Lauda Sion, p. 188 ; Konigsfeld, Hymnen u. Gesdnge, i, 230. English trans- lations are given in Schaff s Christ in Song, p. 256. For German translations, see Biissler, /. c. p. 135 ; Simrock, Konigsfeld, and Fortlage, Gesdnge christl. Vorzeit, p. 142. (B.P.)
Ponet. See Poynet.
Pongilupus, Hermannus, an Italian monastic, flourished near the middle of the 13th century at Ferrara. He practiced great austerity as one of the Consolati, and died in 1269. Several years after his death (1300) charges of heresy were brought against him, and a ju- dicial process having been declared, his bones were ex- humed and burned, and his tomb demolished by order of pope Boniface VIII. His tomb, in the principal church at Ferrara, had been the object of great venera- tion, and many miracles were said to have been wrought there. Some think that the process was instituted and the tomb demolished to put an end to the extravagant devotion paid to his memory. The Franciscans attrib- ute to Pongilupus the origin of the Fratricel'i (q. v.), but Mosheim considers this an error, and believes him to have been one of the Bagnotians. Nafcalis Alexan- der (Hist. Eccles. viii, 87) speaks of Pongilupus as re- viving several vile practices of the Gnostics. See Wad- ding, A mud. Minor. Fratr. vi, 279; Milman, Hist, of Latin Christianity, vii, 37 sq. (J. H. W.)
Pongol, a Hindu festival in honor of the sun, which is celebrated annually on Jan. 9. The high-caste Brah- mins look upon this as a lucky and propitious day, but the Sudras hold it as sacred, and visit one another with presents. They boil rice on this day with milk outside the house, in some place exposed to the sun's rays, and when that luminary withdraws they cry out " Pongol !" and repeat it four times. The rice thus boiled is re- garded as very holy, and kept as long as possible. The day after the Pongol the cows and buffaloes are led out early into the country, having their heads adorned with crowns and cakes.