Petraeus
Pĕtraeus, a, um, v. 2. Petra, I. B.
2. Petraeus, a, um, s. 2. Petra no. I.
Petraeus
(Πετραῖος).
1. One of the centaurs taurs who figures at the wedding of Peirithous. 185 (Hes. Scut. Here.; Ov. Met. 12.330.)
Petraeus
2. A surname of Poseidon among the Thessalians, because he was believed to have separated the rocks, between which the river Peneius flows into the sea. (Pind. P. 4.246, with the Schol.) [L.S]
Petraeus
(Πετραῖος), a friend of Philip V., king of Macedonia, who was sent by that monarch to Sparta in B. C. 220, to receive the submission of the Lacedaemonians, and confirm them in their allegiance to Macedonia. We subsequently find him commanding a military force in Thessaly, where he successfully opposed the invasion of that country by the Aetolian general Dorimachus, B. C. 218. (Plb. 4.24, 5.17.) [E.H.B]