person
Perseus of Macedon
Perseus
also: rege Perse, Persa, King Perses
Last king of Macedon, defeated by L. Aemilius Paulus at Pydna (168 BC). His name supplies the omen in the Persa anecdote, where Paulus's daughter announces the death of her puppy named Persa.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §2.6 King Perseus had been captured
Perseus, last king of Macedon, defeated by Lucius Aemilius Paulus at Pydna in 168 BC. The Dioscuri were said to have brought news of his capture to Rome the same day.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.53 Macedonians after King Perses was taken
Perseus, last king of Macedon, defeated by Aemilius Paullus at Pydna in 168 BC and led in triumph; many Macedonians were enslaved at Rome. The reference dates the consolation-theory to lived Roman experience of captives.