Chapter Provoked Husband to Psycarpax of P by Brewer's Readers Handbook

ps. lix. Saul watching to slay David (I Sam. xix. II). cxiii. David hiding in the cave of Adullam (2 Sam xx. I, 2).

xxxiv. David’s flight from Ahimelech (I Sam. xxi. I-10).

lvi. David at Gath feigning madness (I Sam. xxi. 10-15).

lxii. David in the wilderness of Judah (I Sam. xxii. 5).

lii. Doeg informing against David (I Sam. xxii. 9, 10).

liv. The men of Ziph informing against David (I Sam. xxiii. 19, 20).

lvii. David hiding in the cave from Saul (I Sam. xxiv.).

cxlii. David’s prayer at the time.

cv.,cvi. The psalms sung when the ark was brought back from the house of Obed-edom (I Chron. xvi. 7-34).

lx. On the victory gained in the valley of Salt (2 Sam. viii. 13).

li. After Nathan’s reproof (2 Sam. xii. 1-15).

iii. David after his flight from Jerusalem (2 Sam. xv. 14-37).

vii. David’s trust in God in his deep affliction (2 Sam. xvi.).

iv. David’s bitter grief at Absalom’s conduct (2 Sam. xvi.).

xviii. David’s psalm of thanksgiving when all his enemies had been subdued (2 Sam. xxii.).

xxx. After the plague was stayed.

N.B.—For two of these we have the Bible authority: 2 Sam. xxii. and 2 Chron. xvi. 7. Ps. xc. is ascribed to Moses. The Pss. cxx. to cxxxiv. are called “Songs of Degrees,” and were sung by the Jews on their march home from Babylon; subsequently they were used by the priests as they went up to the temple for their daily service. Pss. cxlvi. to cl. were probably composed for the dedication of the restored temple. Ps. lx. refers to the victory of Joab over the Edomites (2 Sam. vii. 13). (See Sabbath-Day Psalms and Hallelujah Psalms, Pilgrims’ Songs.)

Psalter of Tarah or Tara, a volume in which the early kings of Ireland inserted all historic events and enactments. It began in the reign of Ollam Fodlah, of the family of Ir, B.C. 900, and was read to the assembled princes when they met in the convention which assembled in the great hall of that splendid palace. Also called Tara’s Psaltery.

Their tribe, they said, their high degree,
Was sung in Tara’s Psaltery.

Campbell: O’Connor’s Child.

Pschent (The). (See Egypt, p. 316.)

Psycarpax (i.e. “granary-thief”), son of Troxartas king of the mice. The frog king offered to carry the young Psycarpax over a lake; but a waterhydra made its appearance, and the frog king, to save himself, dived under water, whereby the mouse prince lost his life. This catastrophe brought about the fatal Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Translated from the Greek into English verse by Parnell (1679–1717).