Perʹicles
,Prince of Tyre (Shakespeare). The story is from the Gesta Romanoʹrum, where Periclēs is called “Apolloʹnius, King of Tyre.” The story is also related by Gower in his Confessio Amantis (bk. viii.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.