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Perses

[ pur-seez ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a son of Perseus and Andromeda and the ancestor of the kings of Persia.
  2. brother of King Aeëtes of Colchis. Having murdered Aeëtes and seized the throne, Perses was killed by his niece Medea and her son Medus.


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Later on, the enchanted land was localised at Colchis, and Aeëtes and Perses were said to be brothers.

Also she bare Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.

Hearing this, Paulus took assurance of a victory over Perses.

Let Paulus be regarded as great—he whose triumph that great King Perses adorned.

One parable will for the moment serve as a specimen of the poetry which the wrong-dealing of Perses drew from him.

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