Paralus

• an Athenian hero whose portrait was painted by Protogenes, Plin. 35, 10, 36, § 101; 7, 58, 58, § 207; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 60, § 135 Zumpt.

(Πάραλος).

1. The younger of the two legitimate sons of Pericles. He and his brother were educated by their fattier with the greatest care, but they both appear to have been of inferior capacity, which was anything but copensated by worth of character, though Paralus seems to have been a somewhat more hopeful youth than his brother. Both of them got the nickname of Βλιττομάμμας. Both Xanthippus and Paralus fell victims to the plague B. C. 429. (Plnt. Pericl. 24, 36, de Consolat. p. 118e.; Plat. Aleib. i. p. 118e., with the scholiast on the passage, Protag. p. 319e.; Athen. 11.505, 506.)

2. A friend of Dion of Syracuse [Dion], who was governor of Minoa under the Carthaginians at the time when Dion landed in Sicily and gained possession of Syracuse. See Vol. I. p. 1028. (Diod. 16.9.) [C.P.M]

PA´RALUS[THEORIS]

See theoris.

(Πάραλος). The younger of the two legitimate sons of Pericles. He and his brother Xanthippus died in the great plague which afflicted Athens B.C. 429. The Athenians gave each brother the name of βλιττομάμμας or “booby.” See Plutarch, Pericles, 24, 36.

• Apollod. E.7.25