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Pălīca, ae, f., a town in Sicily.
Hence, Pălīci, ōrum, m., the Palicans, Sil. 14, 219.

Pălīcānus or Pălīkānus, i, m., a Roman surname in the gens Lollia, which sprang from the Sicilian town of Palica, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 41, § 100; id. Att. 1, 1, 1; 1, 18, 5: M. Lollius Palicanus, Val. Max. 3, 8, n. 3.

1. Pălīci, ōrum (sing.: Pălīcus, i, m., Verg. A. 9, 585; Ov. P. 2, 10, 25), m., the sons of Jupiter and the nymph Thalia or Ætna; they were worshipped at Palica in Sicily, where were a temple and two lakes sacred to them, as enforcers of oaths, promoters of fertility, and as sea-gods, Macr. S. 5, 19; Serv. Verg. A. 9, 584: stagna Palicorum, Ov. M. 5, 406; Stat. Th. 12, 155.

2. Pălīci, v. Palica.

Pălīlĭa, ĭum, v. Palilis, II.

Pălīlīcĭus, a, um, adj. [Palilia], of or belonging to the Palilia, Palilian: Palilicium sidus, the Hyades, because they vanished in the evening twilight on the festival of the Palilia, Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 247.

Pălīlis, e, adj. [Pales],

  1. I. of or belonging to Pales: flamma Palilis, a fire of straw and hay, over which the rustics leaped at the feast of Pales, Ov. F. 4, 798: festa Palilia, id. M. 14, 774; Tib. 2, 5, 87.
    Also as subst.:
  2. II. Pălīlĭa, ĭum (euphon. collat. form Părīlĭa, Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 9; Col. 7, 3, 11; Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 69 et saep.; cf. Prob. ad Verg. G. 3 init.; Charis. p. 43 P.; Mar. Vict. p. 2470 P.), n., the feast of Pales, the shepherd festival, celebrated on the 21st of April, the anniversary of the foundation of Rome, Varr. L. L. 6, 3, 15; Cic. Div. 2, 47, 98; cf. also Ov. F. 4, 721; Tib. 2, 5, 89: Parilia, Prop. 5, 1, 19; 5, 4, 75; Pers. 1, 72; Serv. Verg. G. 3 init.; Fest. p. 236 Müll.
    Hence, Părīlīcĭus, a, um, occurring at the time of the Parilia, Plin. 18, 26, 66, § 247.

† pălĭlŏgĭa, ae, f., = παλιλογία, the emphatic repetition of a word or idea, Mart. Cap. 5, § 533, who cites from Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3: nos, nos, dico aperte, nos consules desumus.

† pălimbacchīus, ii, m., = παλιμβακχεῖος, in prosody, i. q. antibacchius, an antibacchic, ––⏑, Quint. 9, 4, 82; Diom. pp. 461 and 476 P.

† pălimpissa, ae, f., = παλίμπισσα, pitch boiled twice, Plin. 24, 7, 24, § 40.

† pălimpsestus, i, m., = παλίμψηστος, a parchment from which the old writing has been erased for the purpose of writing upon it again, a palimpsest, Cic. Fam. 7, 18, 2; Cat. 22, 5.

† pălĭnōdĭa, ae, f., = παλινῳδία, the repetition of a song.

  1. I. Lit., Amm. 18, 5, 4.
  2. II. Transf., a recantation, palinode: palinodiam canere, to recant, Macr. S. 7, 5.

Pălĭnūrus, i, m., = Παλίνουρος, the pilot of Æneas, who fell asleep at the helm and tumbled into the sea off the coast of Lucania, whence the name of the promontory near the spot (now perh. Punta dello Spartimento), Verg. A. 5, 847; 871; 6, 337; 381; Luc. 9, 42; Mel. 2, 4, 9; Hor. C. 3, 4, 28.
In a lusus verbb. with πάλιν οὐρεῖν, iterum meiere, Mart. 3, 78, 2.

* pālĭtans, antis, Part., from the obsol. palito, wandering about: quom (haec oves) eunt sic a pecu palitantes, Plaut. Bacch. 5, 2, 4; v. Ritschl ad h. l.

pălĭūraeus, a, um, adj. [paliurus], covered with Christ’s-thorn: prata, Fulg. Myth. 1 init.

† pălĭūrus, i, m., = παλίουρος, a plant, Christ’s-thorn, Verg. E. 5, 39; cf. Plin. 24, 13, 71, § 115; 16, 30, 53, § 121; Vulg. Isa. 34, 13.