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Brisaeus

Βρισαῖος

(Βρισαῖος), a surname of Dionysus, derived from mount Brisa in Lesbos (Steph. Byz. s. v. Βρίσα), or from a nymph Brisa, who was said to have brought up the god. (Schol. ad Pers. Sat. 1.76.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.