priestess of Apollo's temple in Lemnos. She was likewise nurse to Queen Hypsipyle. It was by her advice that the Lemnian women murdered all their husbands.—There was another Polyxo, a native of Argos, who married Tlepolemus son of Hercules. She followed him to Rhodes after the murder of his uncle Lycimnus; and when he departed for the Trojan war with the rest of the Greek princes, she became the sole mistress of the kingdom. After the Trojan war, Helen fled from Peloponnesus to Rhodes, where Polyxo reigned. Polyxo detained her; and to punish her as being the cause of a war in which Tlepolemus had perished, she ordered her to be hanged on a tree by her female servants, disguised in the habit of Furies.

Pomaceae, (pomum, "an apple,") the name of the 36th order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method, the genera of which have a pulpy succulent fruit, of the apple, berry, and cherry kind. See Botany, Natural Orders.