Stone statues of Pallas and his grandson
Evander[8] were extant in Pallantium in Pausanias' times.[9] Roman authors used Pallas' name to provide an etiology for the name of the hill
Palatium.[8]
Mythology
Pallas and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,
Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Pallas was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[4]
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.