PALÆMON, Q. RHEMNIUS, a famous grammarian of Rome, in the reign of Tiberius, who was born of a slave, at Vienia. We are told he was first brought up to the busi- ness of a weaver; but attending his master's son to school, he profited by this opportunity of attaining knowledge, and acquired so much skill in common learning, that he ob- tained his freedom, and became a teacher or preceptor at Rome. His claim to learning cannot be questioned, since he is recorded as a scholar even by Juvenal. Only some fragments of his works remain.

PALÆOLOGUS, MICHAEL, a very able man, who was governor of Asia under the Emperor Theodorus Lascaris; and who, by various stratagems and cruelties, procured the empire for himself and his posterity. See CONSTAN- T