perseid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A descendant of Perseus.

   “Thus the Family of Pelops got the poſſeſſion of two Kingdoms, and became ſuperior in Wealth and Power to the Perſeids their Rivals.”

2. sıfat Of or relating to the Perseids.

   “The deſcendants and partiſans of the great Hercules, the moſt illuſtrious hero of the Perſeid line, were diveſted of their poſſeſſions, and driven into baniſhment.”

3. özel isim An epithet of Alcmene (grand-daughter of Perseus).

   “The Perseid Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon of Tiryns, was Hercules's mother, Zeus his father […].”

4. özel isim A poem by Trinacrius mentioned by Ovid in Epistulae ex Ponto (4.16.25).
5. özel isim An episode of Ovid's Metamorphoses devoted to Perseus.
6. isim Any of the meteors in a meteor shower that appears to come from the constellation Perseus.
7. özel isim An epithet of Hecate (daughter of Perses).

   “It was not confined to the Male Fury, but belonged also to Medea, the Perseid Hecate or Fury of Colchis, […]”

8. isim Any member of the Perseidae.