Proetus, i, m., = Προῖτος,
a king of Tiryns , brother of Acrisius , Ov. M. 5, 238 sq. — Proetĭdes , um, f., = Προιτιδες, his daughters , who being punished with madness by Juno for their pride , imagined themselves to be cows : Proetides implerunt falsis mugitibus agros, Verg. E. 6, 48; Ov. M. 15, 326; Plin. 25, 5, 21, § 47.