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wife Eurvdice. He was still very young when PERDIX (Wp8tZ), the sister of Daedalus, and
the assassination of his brother Alexander II., by mother of Tales, or according to others, the sister's
Ptolemy of Alorus, caused the crown of Macedonia son of Daedalus, figures in the mythological period
to devolve by hereditary right upon him. Ptolemy, of Greek art, as the inventor of various implements,
however, assumed the government as regent during chiefly for working in wood. Perdix is sometimes
the minority of Perdiccas, with the concurrence of confounded with Tales or Calos, and it is best to
Eurydice. But the appearance of a new compe- regard the various legends respecting Perdix, Tales,
titor for the throne, Pausanias, soon compelled both and Calos, as referring to one and the same person,
Eurydice and her two sons, Perdiccas and Philip, namely, according to the mythographers, a nephew
to have recourse to the assistance of the Athenian of Daedalus. The inventions ascribed to him are:
general Iphicrates, who drove out the usurper, and the saw, the idea of which is said to have been sugre-established Perdiccas upon the throne. Ptolemy gested to him by the back-bone of a fish, or the
seems to have been reinstated in his office of regent teeth of a serpent; the chisel; the compasses; the
or guardian of the young king, under which name potter's wheel. His skill excited the jealousy of
he virtually enjoyed the sovereign power, until at Daedalus, who threw him headlong from the temple
length Perdiccas caused him to be put to death, of Athena on the Acropolis, but the goddess caught
and took the government into his own hands, B. C. him in his fall, and changed him into the bird
364. (Justin. vii. 4, 5; Aesch. de Fals. Leg. which was named after him, perdix, the partridge.
~~ 28-31, ed. Bekk.; Diod. xv. 77, xvi. 2; (Paus. i. 21. ~ 6, 26. ~ 5; Diod. iv. 76, and
Syncell. p. 263; Flathe, Gesch. Macedon. vol. i. Wesseling's note; Apollod. iii. 15. ~ 9; Ovid.
p. 39-40; Thirlwall's Greece, vol. v. p. 162-164.) Met. viii. 241; Senec. Epist. 90; Hygin. Fab. 39,
Of the subsequent reign of Perdiccas we have very 244; Serv. ad Visq. Aen. vi. 14, Georg. i. 143;
little information. We learn only that he was at Suid. s. v. Ie'p8,Kos epo'; DAEDALUS.) [P. S.]
one time engaged in hostilities with Athens on PEREGRI'NUS PRO'TEUS, a cynic philosoaccount of Amphipolis (Aesch. 1. c. ~~ 32-33), pher, born at Parium, on the Hellespont, flourished
and that he was distinguished for his patronage of in the reign of the Antonines. After a youth
men of letters. Among these we are told that spent in debauchery and crimes, among which he.Euphraeus, a disciple of Plato, rose to so high a is even charged with parricide, he visited Palestine,
place in his favour, as completely to govern the where he turned Christian, and by dint of hypoyoung king, and exclude from his society all but crisy attained to some authority in the Church.
philosophers and geometers. (Carystius, ap. Athen. Here, in order to gratify his morbid appetite for
xi. pp. 506, e. 508, d.) Perdiccas fell in battle notoriety, he contrived to get thrown into prison;
against the Illyrians after a reign of five years, but the Roman governor, perceiving his aim, disB.c. 359. (Diod. xvi. 2. The statement of Justin. appointed him by setting him free. He now asvii. 5, that he was killed by Ptolemy of Alorus is sumed the cynic garb, and returned to his native
clearly erroneous. See, however, Curt. vi. 11. ~ town, where, to obliterate the memory of his
26.) He left an infant son, Amyntas, who was, crimes, he divided his inheritance among the
however, excluded from the throne by his uncle populace. He again set out on his travels, relying
Philip. [AMYNTAS, No. 3.] [E.H.B.] on the Christians for support; but being discovered
profaning the ceremony of the Lord's Supper, he
was excommunicated. He then went to Egypt,
where he made himself notorious by the open perpetration of the most disgusting obscenity. Thence
he proceeded to Rome and endeavoured to attract
attention by his ribaldry and abuse, for which he
was expelled by the praefectus urbis. His next
visit was to Elis, where he tried to incite the
people against the Romans. Having exhausted all
the methods of making himself conspicuous, he at
length resolved on publicly burning himself at the
PERDICCAS (IlepSlcKas), was protonotary of Olympic games; and carried his resolution into
Ephesus. A poem written by him was inserted in a effect in the 236th Olympiad, A. D. 165. The Pacompilation of Allatius entitled vuuJcTrda, published rians raised a statue to his memory, which was
at Amsterdam, in 1653, vol. i. pp. 65-78. The reputed to be oracular. (Anaxagoras, quoted by Vasubject is the miraculous events connected with our lois. Ad Atmm. Alfarcell.) Lucian, who knew PeLord's history, principally those of which Jerusalem regrinus in his youth, and who was present at his
was the theatre. But besides Jerusalem, he visits strange self-immolation, has perhaps overcharged
Bethany, Bethpage, and Bethlehem. In this poem the narrative of his life. Wieland was so strongly
-which consists of 260 verses of that kind termed of this opinion that, being unable to refute Lucian
politici-he writes as if from personal inspection, from ancient authors, he wrote his romance of
but, if this was really the case, he is wanting in Peregrinus Proteus, as a sort of vindication of the
clearness and distinctness of delineation. While philosopher. A. Gellius gives a much more fasome of the details are curious, his geography is vourable account of him. (Lucian, de Morte Peresingularly inaccurate. Thus, he places Galilee on grini; Amm. Marc. xxix. 1; Philostrat. Vit. Sophist.
the northern skirts of the Mount of Olives. If we ii. 13; A. Gell. xii. 11.) [T. D.]
may trust a conjecture mentioned by Fabricius, he PEREGRI'NUS, L. ARME'NIUS, consul
attended a synod held at Constantinople, A. D. A. D. 244 with A. Fulvius Aemilianus, the year in
1347, at which were present two of the same name, which Philippus ascended the throne.
Theodorus and Georgius Perdiccas. (Allatius, PERENNIS, after the death of Paternus [PtI.c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 663, vol. viii. TERNUS] in A. D. 183, became sole praefect of the
p. 99.) [W. M. G.] praetorians, and Commodus being completely sunk