Perses
historical figure · 6 works · 8 mentions · 14 anchored passages
King Perses · Perseus · king Perses · you (the addressee)
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Defeated king who begged not to be led in a Roman triumph
\" Paulus, to Perses begging that he not be led in the triumph, said:
Many Carthaginians have served as slaves at Rome, and Macedonians after King Perses was taken;
Works and Days
Hesiod's brother, addressed throughout the poem as the recipient of moral, agricultural, and practical instruction; previously involved in a dispute over their father's inheritance which he is said to have won unfairly through bribed judges.
But you, Perses, lay up these things within your heart and listen now to right, ceasing altogether to think of violence.
For we had already divided our inheritance, but you seized the greater share and carried it off, greatly swelling the glory of our bribe-swallowing lords who love to judge such a cause as this.
Marry a maiden, so that you can teach her careful ways, and especially marry one who lives near you, but look well about you and see that your marriage will not be a joke to your neighbors.
On Moral Ends
King of Macedon defeated and captured by Lucius Aemilius Paulus.
Whom did the descent on the Tiber on that festal day affect with so great joy as Lucius Paulus, when he brought king Perses captive, sailing in upon the same river?
The Histories
Legendary son of Perseus (son of Danae and Zeus) and Andromeda, left with his grandfather Cepheus; the Persians are said to be named after him.
it was from this Perses that the Persians took their name.
Theogony
Son of Crius and Eurybia, eminent among all men in wisdom, who takes Asteria to wife and becomes father of Hecate.
Also she bore Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife.
And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to Crius and bore great Astraeus, and Pallas, and Perses who also was eminent among all men in wisdom.
Consolation to Marcia
King of Macedon defeated by Aemilius Paulus and paraded in his triumph.
Paulus, about the days of that most renowned triumph in which he drove Perses, the name of an illustrious king, in chains before his car, gave two sons in adoption, and buried the two he had kept for himself.
Yet it was not granted to Perses to see Paulus downcast.