PALÆMON (Q. Rhemminus), a Latin grammarian, born at Vicenza, was the son of slave. He taught at Rome with great applause under Tiberius and Claudius, and Juvenal mentions him with praises. We have only some fragments of his works.

PALÆPAPHOS, (Strabo, Virgil, Pliny), a town of Cyprus, where stood a temple of Venus; and an adjoining town called New Paphos; where St Paul struck Elymas blind, and converted the proconsul Sergius Paulus.

PALÆSTRA, in Grecian antiquity, a public building, where the youth exercised themselves in wrestling, running, playing at quoits, &c.

PALÆSTROPHYLAX, was the director of the palaestra, and the exercises performed there.