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(adjective) : Persĭus, ĭi, m.
* A Roman surname.
* C. Persius, an orator, a contemporary of the Gracchi, Cic. de Or 2, 6, 25; id. Brut. 26, 99; id. Fin. 1, 3, 7.
* A. Persius Flaccus, a celebrated satirist of Volaterroe, in Etruria, who died in the reign of Nero, at the age of twenty-eight, A. D. 62, Mart. 4, 29, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 94.—Hence
* Persĭānus, a, um, , of or belonging to the poet Persius, Persian: Persianum illud,that passage of Persius,Lact. 2, 2, 18.
* A third Persius, otherwise unknown, has given his name to the Persĭānae Aquae, perh. near Carthage, App Flor 3, p. 353, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary