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(adjective) : Phĕrĕcȳdes, is, m., = Φερεκύδης.
* A celebrated philosopher from Syros, an instructor of Pythagoras, Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 38; id. Div. 1, 50, 112; reputed to be the inventor of prose,Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 205.—Hence
* Phĕrĕcȳdēus, a, um, , of or belonging to Pherecydes, Pherecydean: Pherecydeum illud,that saying of Pherecydes,Cic. Div. 2, 13, 31.
* An Athenian chronicler, about 480 B.C., Cic. de Or. 2, 12, 53.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary