Such is the explanation of the shower which appears each year in the first half of August, and whose meteors are sometimes called Perseids, because their radiant lies in the constellation perseus, and a similar explanation holds for all the star showers which are repeated year after year.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock
Now, in the sword-handle of perseus, as it is called, are set two clusters of gems, by trying to count which the Captain had, before now, amused himself for hours together.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
This, though taken from an idle system of theology, yet plainly shews, that the history of perseus had been greatly misapplied and lowered, by being inserted among the fables of Greece.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant