a discourse contrary to former avowed principles; hence the phrase of *palindromum canere* was taken for a recantation.

PALINURUS PROMONTORIUM (Virgil, Velleius), with a cognominal port, was situated at the south extremity of the Sinus Paeonian on the coast of Lucania: so called from Palinurus, Æneas's steersman, who there perished (Mela, Dionysius Halicarnassensis).