I.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.
Proetus , i, m., = Προῖτος,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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