perseid

plural perseids

1. biologyAny member of the Perseidae.

plural Perseids · plural Perseidae · alternative archaic Perseide · alternative archaic Perseïde

1. Greekhuman sciencesA descendant of Perseus.

   […] the Perseids, who reigned at Mycenæ […]

   1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric age, page 365

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   Thus the Family of Pelops got the poſſeſſion of two Kingdoms, and became ſuperior in Wealth and Power to the Perſeids their Rivals.

   1735, Thomas Blackwell, An Enquiry Into the Life and Writings of Homer, page 20

   […] Heracles, who traces his lineage back to the two great families in the Argolid, the Perseids and the Pelopids […]

   2019, Olga Zekiou, The Poetics of the Homeric Citadel, page 66

alternative archaic Perseide · alternative archaic Perseïde

1. Greeknot comparablehuman sciencesOf or relating to the Perseids.

   […] the Perseid line […]

   1814, William Mitford, The History of Greece, volume 8, London, page 4

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   The deſcendants and partiſans of the great Hercules, the moſt illuſtrious hero of the Perſeid line, were diveſted of their poſſeſſions, and driven into baniſhment.

   1787, John Gillies, The History of Ancient Greece, page 95

   We here reach the commencement of the Perseid dynasty of Mykênæ.

   1869, George Grote, A History of Greece, page 90

alternative archaic Perseide · alternative archaic Perseïde

1. An epithet of Alcmene (grand-daughter of Perseus).

   The Perseid Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon of Tiryns, was Hercules's mother, Zeus his father […].

   1880, The Encyclopædia Britannica, page 725

2. A poem by Trinacrius mentioned by Ovid in Epistulae ex Ponto (4.16.25).
3. An episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses devoted to Perseus.

plural Perseids · plural Perseides · alternative archaic Perseide · alternative archaic Perseïde

1. astronomyAny of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Perseus.

alternative archaic Perseide · alternative archaic Perseïde

1. An epithet of Hecate (daughter of Perses).

   It was not confined to the Male Fury, but belonged also to Medea, the Perseid Hecate or Fury of Colchis, […]

   1828, Nimrod, page 425

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   Then to the shrine of Perseid Hecate,² / Concealed by forest shades, she boldly went, / Her passions on the wane. But when she there / Saw Aeson's son, her embers flamed anew!

   2023, Ovid's Metamorphoses: A New Translation, page 182