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Peloponnesian, n. and a.|pɛləpɒˈniːzɪən|
Also 6–8 Peloponesian.
[f. Gr. Πελοπόννησ-ος, L. Peloponnes-us Peloponnesus + -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the Peloponnesus (or Peloponnese), a peninsula forming the southernmost part of the Greek mainland.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus or its inhabitants. Peloponnesian war, a war fought between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 b.c., in which Sparta and its Peloponnesian allies were victorious.
a1490J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca Historica (1956) I. iv. 275 Oonly the Boecians and the Peloponnesians, and non other, be permytted and licenced to take away of this golde with theym. 1550T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides (title) The hystory..of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans. 1579North tr. Plutarch's Lives 184 Pericles..was thought the only original cause & author of the Peloponnesian warres. 1629Hobbes tr. Thucydides' Eight Bks. Pelop. War i. 14 This Warre, which began from the time that the Athenians and Peloponnesians brake the League. 1709I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus' Hist. II. ix. 370 When the Lacedemonians were advanc'd to the Isthmus, and encamp'd with their Army; the other Peloponesians..thought they could not stay behind without Disgrace. 1752Hume Polit. Discourses x. 226 When they were all chas'd into town, by the invasion of their territory during the Peloponnesian war, the city was not able to contain them. 1808W. Mitford Hist. Greece II. xv. 95 The Athenians..a little before the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, sent Phormion with thirty triremes to their assistance. 1827J. R. Major Questions Mitford's Hist. Greece 277 The answer of the Pythoness was understood to import that the Peloponnesians would be victorious. 1890C. W. C. Oman Hist. Greece xxvii. 293 Great battles on shore were very rare during the Peloponnesian war. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXI. 73/2 In 429 the Peloponnesians were deterred by the plague from invading Attica. 1959N. G. L. Hammond Hist. Greece 167 Modern scholars have called it [sc. the Spartan Alliance], rather misleadingly, ‘the Peloponnesian League’. 1960A. R. Burn Lyric Age Greece ix. 176 The Peloponnesian Argives defeated Sparta on the field of Hysiai. 1969C. M. Woodhouse Philhellenes iv. 115 Stanhope..adopted the idea of organising a grand conference of national unity... He..visited the seat of the provisional government at Nauplia, to persuade the Peloponnesian leaders to take part... But all was in vain. The Peloponnesians would not come. 1972D. Dakin Unification of Greece x. 143 Deliyannis..had become the eloquent and popular leader of the disgruntled Peloponnesian peasants. 1972R. Meiggs Athenian Empire x. 181 Peace..was to be made with the Peloponnesians. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 233 It is doubtful whether the Peloponnesian detachment was dispatched during the actual celebration of the Olympic games. Ibid. 247 The Peloponnesians began construction of the Isthmian wall immediately upon hearing of the outcome of Thermopylae. |