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Mantuan, a. and n.|ˈmæntjuːən|
[ad. L. Mantuān-us, f. Mantua: see -an.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to Mantua, a city in northern Italy near which Virgil was born; hence, of or pertaining to Virgil, Virgilian. the Mantuan Muse, Mantuan Swan, Virgil.
1538King Henry VIII Epistle sig. B2 We moste hartely desyre you, that ye wol vouchesafe, to rede those thynges, that we wrote this laste yere, touchynge the Mantuan Councille. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 129 Still with itself compar'd, his [sc. Homer's] text peruse; And let your comment be the Mantuan Muse. 1780Cowper Table-t. 557 Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard. 1940G. F.-H. & J. Berkeley Italy in Making III. viii. 141 The Mantuan volunteers..gave a very creditable account of themselves.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Mantua. the Mantuan = Virgil.
1649Ogilby Virgil, Bucolicks (1684) i. note, Virgil..amongst other Mantuans, ejected out of his Inheritance, went to Rome for redress. 1827G. Darley Sylvia (1892) 186 Who [sc. Milton] from the Mantuan's bleeding crown Tore the presumptuous laurel down. 1842K. H. Digby Mores Catholici xi. i. 6 Mezentius is never named by the great Mantuan without the epithet ‘contemtorque Deûm’. 1953T. F. Murray tr. Dal-Gal's Pius X v. 91 He had not spent long among the Mantuans before his people..were charmed by his meekness and won by his charity. |