\Pa"thos\, n.
1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or
   experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted
   and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions
   or feelings as distinguished from those which are
   universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to
   {ethos}.
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

\Pa"thos\, n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion,
fr. ?, ?, to suffer; cf. ? toil, L. pati to suffer, E.
patient.]
That quality or property of anything which touches the
feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which
awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like;
contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic
quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
      The combination of incident, and the pathos of
      catastrophe.                             --T. Warton.