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Theban, a. and n.|ˈθiːbən|
(also 7 -ean, 8 -æan.)
[ad. L. Thēbān-us, f. Thēbæ, Gr. θῆβαι, Thebes.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to Thebes, capital of ancient Bœotia in Greece.
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 85 This theban knyght..Was yonge. c1374― Troylus v. 601 So cruwel..vn-to þe blood Thebane. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Art Poetry 533 Thus rose the Theban Wall; Amphion's Lyre, And soothing Voice the listening Stones inspire. 1762Falconer Shipwreck iii. 227 To curb thy spirit with a Theban chain. 1861Paley æschylus (ed. 2) vii. Agst. Thebes 240 note, The association of Theban gods..Pallas, Hera, Artemis,..Poseidon, Aphrodite, &c.
2. Of or belonging to Thebes, ancient capital of Upper Egypt; = Thebaic a.1
Theban drug, opium or laudanum; Theban marble, Theban porphyry = thebaic stone; Theban year, the Egyptian year of 3651/4 days.
1645Evelyn Diary 21 Feb., The architrave of the portico [of the Roman Pantheon] sustain'd by 13 pillars of Theban marble. [1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Thebanus ophites..that species of the..serpentine marble more commonly called ophites niger, the black serpentine.] 1768C. Shaw Monody xvi, Come, Theban drug, the wretch's only aid, To my torn heart its former peace restore. 1831–3E. Burton Eccl. Hist. xxviii. (1845) 596 The martyrdom of the Theban legion..may be said to have taken place about the year 286, when Herculeus was on his march into Gaul. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 435/2 Theban Porphyry was black with yellow spots. 1962E. Colledge Mediæval Mystics of England 15 The hermit settlements of the Theban desert.
B. n.
1. (also † Thebien). A native or inhabitant of Bœotian Thebes, a Bœotian.
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 60. c 1386 ― Knt.'s T. 1712 Thise two Thebans vp on either side. c1420Wars Alex. (Prose) 34 Þe Thebienes also þat were so wyse, and so grete exercyse hadde in armes. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. iv. 162 Ile talke a word with this same lerned Theban. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1851) I. 320/2 They proclaimed liberty to the Thebans. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 103 Flute-music..was stigmatised as Theban⁓like, and consequently unfit for a gentleman. 1880Swinburne Study Shaks. 183 To the simpler eyes of less learned Thebans than these—Thebes, by the way, was Dryden's irreverent name for Cambridge.
2. The variety of Greek spoken in Bœotian Thebes. poet. rare.
1820Shelley Oedipus Tyrannus (1904) ii. ii. 451 In plain Theban, that is to say, My name's John Bull. |