| 释义 |
Pisistratid, n. and a.|paɪˈsɪstrətɪd|
Also Peisistratid, 8 Pysistratid.
[ad. L. Pisistratidae, Gr. Πεισιστρατίδαι, the name given to Hippias and Hipparchus, sons of Pisistratus, tyrant of Athens in the 6th cent. b.c.]
A. n. (Pl. -idae, -ids.) A member or supporter of the family of Pisistratus. Chiefly in pl.
1709I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus' Hist. II. v. 57 The Corinthians would be the first of all People to regret the Pisistratides. 1776W. Ellis tr. Aristotle's Treat. Govt. v. xi. 295 The Pyramids of Egypt are a proof of this,..and the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, built by the Pysistratidæ, and the Works of Polycrates at Samos; for all these produced one end, the keeping the People poor. 1808W. Mitford Hist. Greece I. xii. 561 He married Agaristë, niece of Cleisthenes, chief of the Alcmæonid family, and leader of the party that expelled the Peisistratids. 1848Eton School Mag. III. 114 It thus appears how irretrievably the government of the Pisistratids had injured the Athenian character. 1885B. Jowett tr. Aristotle's Politics I. v. 184 Third in duration was the rule of the Peisistratidae at Athens, but it was interrupted. 1900J. B. Bury Hist. Greece v. 206 The Pisistratids cultivated the friendship of Sparta. 1922P. N. Ure Origin of Tyranny i. 14 This part of the tyrants' policy is noticed by Aristotle, who quotes..the building of the temple of Olympian Zeus at Athens by the Peisistratids. Ibid. ii. 33 The Philaidae, of whose rivalry with the Peisistratidae there will be occasion to speak later. 1972R. Meiggs Athenian Empire i. 19 The expulsion of the Pisistratids in 510.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Pisistratus or his family; spec. of or pertaining to the revision of the Homeric poems attributed to Pisistratus. Also Pisistraˈtean a.
1846J. S. Mill in Edin. Rev. LXXXIV. 363 Mr. Grote..rejects the Pisistratean hypothesis. 1965A. R. Burn Traveller's Hist. Greece vii. 114 Hipparchos, the chief Peisistratid patron of poets and artists, was stabbed to death. 1968V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates iv. 82 The story of a ‘Peisistratid redaction’ of the two epics can hardly be true. |