palladium
131PALLADIUM — a statue of Pallas in Troy, on the preservation of which depended the safety of the city, and from the date of the abstraction of which by Ulysses and Diomedes the fate of it was doomed; it was fabled to have fallen from heaven upon the plain… …
132Palladium — Pal|la|di|um 〈n.; Gen.: s, Pl.: di|en〉 1. 〈zählb.〉 a) kultisches Bild der grch. Göttin Pallas Athene in Troja b) 〈fig.〉 schützendes Heiligtum 2. 〈unz.; chem. Zeichen: Pd〉 chem. Element, platinähnliches Edelmetall, Ordnungszahl 46 [Etym.: nach… …
