Parmenio  was  evidently  sacrificed  in  cold  blood  to
vriut  hkve  been  styled,  in  after  agea,  "reasons  of
•tate."  '  He  was  seventy  yeara  of  age;-'he  had  lost
two  aonn  in  the  campaigns  of  Alexander,  and  Hiik>tas
was  the  list  one  remaining  to  him.  Parmenio  appears
10  have  been  a  steady,  brave,  and  (ondent  command-
.er.   lEncyel.  UMrKnowl.,  vol  17,  p.  S88,  ttq.)

PABHiBaas  (II(i^>yaffj^),  I.  the  name  of  a  mount-
nin-ebain  in  Pbocis,  which  extends  in  a  nortbeestoriy
direction  from  the  covntn  of  the  Loeii  Oaolw  to
Mount  (Eta,  and  in  a  aoathweateriT  direetioa  thnmgh
the  middle  of  Phocis,  till  it  joins  Mount  Helicon  on
-the  hotiSu  of  Bceotia.  Strato  (816)  says  that  Par-
mssuB  divided  Phocis  into  two  paru ;  bat  tbe  name
was  more'itsniLlly  restricted  tO'the  lofty  mounisin  upon
wltieh  Delphi  was  situated.  Aecordmg  to  Stepbanus
of  Byzantium,  it  was  anciently  called  Xsniassus,  be-
cause tbe  ailt  or  Untax  of  Deuo^n  landed  here  af-
ter the  flond.  (Compare  Omd,  UtL,  1, 818.)  Pao-
aanias  (10,  S,  1)  detivea  die  name  fr^  Parmvstia,  the
son  of  Neptune  and  Cleodora.  It  is  called  at  .the  pree-
ent  day  Z^oitHnt.  Pamasaus  ia  the  highest  mountain
in  Central  Greece.  Strabo  (379)  says  that  it  could
be  aeen  from  tbe  Acrocoiinthus  in  t^oiinlh,  and  also
.  sMeo  (409)  4hat  it  was  of  the  tsme  heighi  as  Mount
Bifim;  bat  in  ilw  lamer  pginf  ho  wmuttahn,  «e-

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cording  to  C(4Mh1  LeaKe,  wbt  kAgm  m (l^tkum

Ntrthmt  Greece,  vol.  3,  p.  6t7)  that  Uahm  k  torn
boodTeds  of  feet  higher  tbsn  Pefeeniw,  which  ii  tht
highest  point.of  Helicon.  Pkraassns  wu  emmi  Urn
grestw  part  of  the  year  with  snow,  wheocetbstpitbel
of  "  tneinr"  so  generally  applied  to  it  by  tbe  pseu.
