. surrendered with his children toi the praetor Cn. Octavius. When brought be-fore Aemilius, he is said to have degradedhimBelf by the most abject supplications: bubj he was treated with kindness by the RomanI general. The following year he was carried toItaly, where he was compelled to adorn thesplendid triumph of his conqueror (Nov. 30, 107), and afterwar la cast into a dungeon, fromi whence, however, the intercession of Aemilius G80 PERSIA PERSIS procured his release, and he was permitted toend his days in an honourable captivity
. surrendered with his children toi the praetor Cn. Octavius. When brought be-fore Aemilius, he is said to have degradedhimBelf by the most abject supplications: bubj he was treated with kindness by the RomanI general. The following year he was carried toItaly, where he was compelled to adorn thesplendid triumph of his conqueror (Nov. 30, 107), and afterwar la cast into a dungeon, fromi whence, however, the intercession of Aemilius G80 PERSIA PERSIS procured his release, and he was permitted toend his days in an honourable captivity at survived his removal thither a few years,and died, according to some accounts, by volun-tary starvation, while others—fortunately withless probability—represent him as falling avictim to the cruelty of his guards, who de-prived him of sleep. Perseus had been twicemarried: the name of his first wife, whom heis said to have killed with his own hand in a fitof passion, is not recorded; his second, Lao-dice, was the daughter of Seleucus IV. Philo-. Perseus, King of , head of Perseus; rev., baziaeqs nEPSEQS; eagle onthunderbolt, surrounded by oak-wreath. pator. He left two children : a son, Alexander,and a daughter, both apparently by his secondmarriage, as they were mere children whencarried to Rome. Besides these, he hadadopted his younger brother Philip, who wasregarded by him as the heir to his throne,and became the partner of his captivity. (; Pol. xxiv., xxvk, xxvii., xxix.)Persia. [Persis.] Persici Montes. [Parsict Montes.] Perslcus Sinus, Persicum Mare (6 Tlep<riKbsko^ttos, i) XlepaiKT) daAaacra, and other forms :the Persian Crulf), is the name given by thelatar geographers to the great gulf of theMare Erythraeum [Indian Ocean), extendingin a SE. direction from the mouths of theTigris, between the NE. coast of Arabia andthe opposite coast of Susiana, Persis, and Car-mania, to the narrow strait formed by thelong tongue of land whic
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