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...PERSEUS. ... This Perseus, the son and successor of Philip III of Macedonia, came
to the throne in 178 BC and was the last king of Maccedonia. ...
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Macedonia (23 Occurrences)
... 3. Roman Conquest: In 179 Philip was succeeded by his son Perseus, who at once renewed
the Roman alliance, but set to work to consolidate and extend his power. ...
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Philip (37 Occurrences)
... He died in 179, and was succeeded by his son Perseus, last king of Macedonia, who
lost his crown in his contest with the Romans. See PERSEUS. J. Hutchison. ...
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Persepolis

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Perseverance (27 Occurrences)

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Thessalonica (8 Occurrences)
... and wealthy. In the war between Perseus and the Romans it appears as the
headquarters of the Macedonian navy (Livy xliv. 10) and ...
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Eumenes
... Eumenes II cultivated the Roman alliance carefully but became suspected in connection
with the affairs of Perseus, the last king of Macedonia. ...
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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
... Strabo says that it owed its rise to the Argives who with Triptolemus wandered in
search of Io (xiv.673), while others spoke of Heracles or Perseus as the ...
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Joppa (14 Occurrences)
... In time of storm the passage is dangerous. On one of these rocks Perseus is
said to have rescued the chained Andromeda from the dragon. ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PERSEUS

pur'-sus, pur'-se-us (Perseus): In 1 Maccabees 8:5 the conquest of "Perseus, king of the Citims" (the Revised Version (British and American) "king of Chittim") was part of the "fame of the Romans" which reached the ears of Judas. This Perseus, the son and successor of Philip III of Macedonia, came to the throne in 178 B.C. and was the last king of Maccedonia. In 171 B.C. began the war with Rome which ended in his disastrous defeat and capture at Pydna, 168 B.C. (to which 1 Maccabees 8:5 refers), by L. Aemilius Paulus. Macedonia soon became a Roman province. Perseus was led to Rome to grace the triumph of his conqueror, by whose clemency he was spared, and died in captivity at Rome (Polyb. xxix. 17; Livy xliv. 40;).

Kittim or Chittim, properly of the people of the town of Citium in Cyprus, then signifying Cyprians, and extended by Jewish writers (Genesis 10:4 Numbers 24:24 Isaiah 23:1 Jeremiah 2:10 Ezekiel 27:6 Daniel 11:30; Josephus, Ant, I, vi) to include the coasts of Greece generally, is here applied to Maccdonia. In 1 Maccabees 1:1 Macedonia (or Greece) is called "the land of Chittim."

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.

2. (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopeia. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

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