Persĭus, ĭi, m., a Roman surname.
I C. Persius, an orator , a contemporary of the Gracchi , Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 25; id. Brut. 26, 99; id. Fin. 1, 3, 7.—
II A. Persius Flaccus, a celebrated satirist of Volaterrae , in Etruria , who died in the reign of Nero , at the age of twenty-eight , A. D. 62, Mart. 4, 29, 7; Quint. 10, 1, 94.—Hence,
B Persĭānus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the poet Persius , Persian : Persianum illud, that passage of Persius , Lact. 2, 2, 18.—
III A third Persius, otherwise unknown, has given his name to the Persĭānae Ăquae , perh. near Carthage, App Flor 3, p. 353, 5.