| 释义 |
▪ I. Milesian, a.1 and n.1|maɪˈliːʃ(ɪ)ən, mɪ-|
[f. L. Mīlēsius (Gr. Μιλήσιος) of or pertaining to Miletus + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
B. n. An inhabitant of Miletus.
Milesian tales (Gr. τὰ Μιλησιακά, L. Milesiæ sc. fabulæ), a class of voluptuous romances mentioned by ancient writers.
1550T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides iv. sig. Siiii verso, They had in their compaignie the succours of Milesyans, of Andryens and of Caristians. 1600P. Holland tr. Livy xliii. 1159 The Milesians for their part said, That hitherto they had done nothing. 1602I. B. in E. Beaumont Salm. & Hermaphr. Pref. Verses, Or wanton Nymphs in watry bowres haue woue, With fine Mylesian threds, the verse he sings. 1607[see Calabrian a. and n.]. a1635Randolph Hey for Honesty (1651) iv. iii. 472 You told her, The Milesians were valiant in the daies of yore. 1649Ogilby tr. Virg. Georg. iii. (1684) 102 In rich Milesian Fleeces cloth'd. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. ii. (1687) 61/1 Anaximander a Milesian. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 319/1 The Milesian tale..grew in the hands of Petronius and Apuleius into the satirical romance. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. vii. 191 Since it would be erroneous to call this Hippodamian planning, I shall follow Roland Martin and call it Milesian, after Miletus, the chief point of origin. 1968Encycl. Brit. XV. 444/1 The Milesians..were already rebuilding their city on a new grid plan to the type invented..by the Milesian Hippodamus.
▪ II. Milesian, a.2 and n.2|maɪˈliːʃ(ɪ)ən, mɪ-|
[f. the name of Milesius (Miledh), a fabulous Spanish king whose sons are reputed to have conquered and reorganized the ancient kingdom of Ireland about 1300 b.c.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to King Milesius or his people; Irish.
B. n. A member of the race descended from the companions of Milesius. Hence (sometimes jocularly), an Irishman.
1596Spenser State Irel. (1633) 31 All which are in truth fables, and very Milesian lyes, as the later proverbe is: for never was there such a King of Spaine, called Milesius. 1705M. Kennedy (title) A Chronological Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Royal Family of the Stuarts, beginning with Milesius the stock of those they call the Milesian Irish, and of the old Scotish Race. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton I. 54 The old Irish families stile themselves Milesians, from Milesius, a Spaniard, who brought over a colony of his countrymen to people the island. 1771Macpherson Introd. Hist. Gt. Brit. 102 Some Irish annalists affirm, that the Picts..were tributary to the Milesian Scots of Ireland. 1773― Ossian's Poems, Dissert. (1806) I. p. xli, As a Scotchman, and of course, descended of the Milesian race. 1839Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The wild Milesian features..salute you on all highways and byways. Ibid., The English coachman..lashes the Milesian with his whip. 1910D. Hyde in R. M. Dorson Peasant Customs (1968) II. 704 Some of the Scotch stories may have been bequeathed to the Gaelic language by those races who were displaced by the Milesian Conquest in the fifth century. 1921Edin. Rev. Jan. 167 And lastly the Milesians. The Milesian being a literary and honorific cognomen of the Firbolgs' conquerors, the Gaels. 1971It 2–16 June 24/1 The first groups of wholly human invaders to reach these shores..were called the Milesians or ‘Sons of Miledh’. |