PBOMISSORY NOTE 358 PROPEBTIUS to be tied to a rock on Mount Caucasus, where, for 30,000 years, a vulture was to feed on his liver. He was delivered 30 years afterward, by Hercules. PROMISSORY NOTE, a wi'itten prom- ise to pay a given sum of money to a certain person, at a specified date. The phrase "for value received" is usually in- serted. PRONG-HORN ANTELOPE, inhabit- ing the W. parts of North America, from 53 '^ N. to the plains of Mexico and Cali- fornia. It is rather more than four feet PRONG-HORN ANTELOPE in length. Pale fawn above and on the limbs; breast, abdomen, and rump white. The horns are branched. PRONOUN, a word used in place of a noun or name. Pronouns in English are divided into: (1) Personal, (2) Demonstrative, (3) Interrogative, (4) Relative, and (5) Indefinite. Interrog- ative pronouns are those which serve to ask a question, as who? Indefinite pro- nouns, or such as do not specify any particular object, are used, some as sub- stantives, some as adjectives; as, any, aught. PROOFS, CORRECTION OF. The corrections to be made on a "proof" of printed matter are marked on "the mar- gin; and for this purpose an established set of signs is used. The following specimens of a proof exhibits the appli- cation of most of these signs: "To rule the nations with imperial sw0y, to impose termis ot peace, to la spare the humbled, and to rcush the 2 tr. proud, resigning itto others to de- 3 J scribe the courses of the heavens, and 4 | explain the risinz stars; this, to use the words of the poet of the ^neid 5 Itake, in the apostrophe of Anchises to Fabius in the Shades was regarded 6 ,/ as the proper province of a Roman. 5 S. capt. The genius of the people was fivcn 7 stet. more adverse to the cultivation of the 8 9 physical sciences than that the Euro- 9 of pean Greeks and lseen| we have! th«t 8 •/ 2 tr, A the latter left experimental philosophy chiefly in the hands of the Asian and 10 wf. African colonists. The elegant litera- 8 ture and metaphysical speculations 11 5 3 2 ' 1 of Athens, her histories, dramas, epics, 2 tr, and orations, had a numerous host of admirers in Italy, but a feeling of 12 Romcm indifference was displayed to the practical science of Alexandria. ['This 13 T repugnance of the Roman mind at 14 and its home to mathematics and physics, despotism extending from the Atlantic to the abroad, IndianO cean, from Northern Britain 3 jf 15 ^ to the cataracts of the Nile, annihi- lated in a measure -aA^ pure sciences 18 the in the conquered districts where they 17 had had r been pursued, and prohibited 11 5 attention to them country. Long, indeed, after the age of Ptolemy^ the school in connection 5 Caps. with which he flourished, remained 20 V in the mother is-/ A 19 Run on in existence ; &c A (1) A wrong letter. After every mark of cor- rection a line | should be drawn, to prevent its being confounded with any other in the same line. (2) A word or letter to be transposed. Where letters only are to be transposed, it is better to strike them out, and write them in their proper sequence in the margin, like a correction. (3) A space wanted. This mark is also used when the spacing is insufficient. (4) A space or quadrant sticking up. (5) Alteration of type. One line ia drawn under the word for italics, two for sm.ll CAPITALS, three for CAPITALS. (6) Correction or insertion of stops. (7) A word struck out. and afterward approved of (Latin stet, 'let it stand"). (8) A turned letter. (9)An omission. (10) A letter of a wrong font. (11) A word or letter to be deleted. (12) Alteration of type. (13) A new paragraph. (14) Insertion of a clause. (15) A space to be removed or diminished. (16) A wrong word. (17) When letters or lines do not stand even. (18) Mark for a hyphen. (19) No new paragraph. (20) The manner in which tha apostrophe, inverted commas, the star and other references, and superior or "cock-up " letters and figures are marked. PROPERTIUS. SEXTT7S AURELIITS, a Roman poet; born in Melvina, about 52 B. C. Nothing more of his life is known than that, after the end of the civil war, he found a patron at Rome, in Maecenas, through whom he obtained
