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Pylian, n. and a.|ˈpiːlɪən, ˈpaɪ-|
[f. Gr. πύλος, L. Pylos Pylos: see -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the Homeric town of Pylos in the southern Peloponnese, traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Nestor and the name of his dynasty, and usually identified with Messenian Pylos at the northern end of Navarino Bay. Hence, by extension, a native or inhabitant of the territory ruled by Nestor or his dynasty.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Pylos or its inhabitants.
1611Chapman Homer's Iliads ii. 28 The Pylians and their townes. 1614― tr. Homer's Odysses iii. 32 Soone they reacht the Pylian throngs and seates, Where Nestor with his sonnes sate. Ibid., When the Pylians saw These strangers come: in thrust did all men draw About their entrie. 1725Pope in Homer's Odyssey I. 142 This was a very solemn sacrifice of the Pylians. 1846G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 16 The Pylians, together with the great heroic family of Nêleus and his son Nestôr, who preside over them, give place to the Dorian establishment of Messênia, and retire to Athens, where their leader Melanthus becomes king. 1934A. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 403 In the Homeric epic, Pylos is not called ‘Minyan’ as Orchomenos is, nor are the Pylians called ‘Minyae’. Ibid., The Greek inhabitants of..the ci-devant Pylian domain. 1965Language XLI. 315 Scribes who use different orthographies may have come from different localities within the Pylian territory. |