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Siˈcanian, a. and n.|sɪˈkeɪnɪən|
[f. L. Sīcani-us, f. Sīcanī (usually Sicānī), Gr. σικανοί, a tribe inhabiting part of Sicily.]
A. adj.
a. Sicilian. poet.
b. Archæol. Denoting the Neolithic period in Sicily.
c. Of or pertaining to the Sicans.
B. n. = Sican.
1629T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides' Peloponnesian War vi. 350 After them, the first that appear to have dwelt therein, are the Sicanians. 1647Cowley Mistr., Coldness iv, Alphæus found not a more secret trace, His lov'd Sicanian Fountain to embrace. 1795Landor Gebir vi. 173 And now Sicanian Etna rose to view. 1875Morris æneid v. 24 The way..To brother-land of Eryx leal and safe Sicanian port. 1876F. Tozer Class. Geogr. x. 117 The original inhabitants of Sicily were two tribes, the Sicanians in the west, and the Sicels in the east, both of whom belonged to the same Graeco-Italian stock as the Greeks themselves. 1909T. E. Peet Stone & Bronze Ages Italy & Sicily v. 123 By Professor Orsi..the pre-Hellenic period in the island, excluding the palaeolithic, is divided into five divisions. To the first of these he gives the name Sicanian; the other four are called respectively First, Second, Third and Fourth Siculan periods. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXV. 20/1 The most important of the towns to which a Sicanian origin can be with certainty assigned..are: Hyccara..; Omphakē..; and Camicus. 1957Ibid. XX. 603/1 The term Sicanian is applied to that period of the Stone Age which followed the palaeolithic period exemplified in the remarkable rock engravings of the cave near Palermo. |