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Perseides

or PERSEIUS (Περσείδης, Περσηϊάδης, Περσεῖος, or Περσήϊος), a patronvylic of Perseus, used to designate his descendants. (Hom. Il. 19.123; Thuc. 1.9.) But it is also used to designate the descendants of Perse, viz. Aeetes and Hecate. (V. Fl. 5.582, 6.495.)

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.