Aeginetann.adj.
/iːdʒᵻˈniːtn/, U.S. /ˌidʒəˈnitn/ Ancient Greek History.
A. n.
A native or inhabitant of the Greek island of Aegina.
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1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea i. xi. 67 The Athenians..passed a Decree, that the Æginetans, who were powerful in Shipping, should have their thumbs cut off.
1686 tr. Aristotle Rhetoric ii. xxii. 143 They reduc'd the Greeks into Slavery, and subdu'd the Eginetans and Potideats.
1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea ii. viii. 90 The Prisoners..might have the Thumbs of their Right Hands cut off..as had been formerly done to the Æginetans.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Greece I. v. 99 After a variety of fortunes, the Æginetans were worsted, and the Athenians possessed themselves of the sovereignty of the seas.
1819 E. Dodwell Tour Greece I. xvi. 560 Hecate seems to have been held in particular veneration by the Æginetans.
1876 G. W. Cox Greeks & Persians vi. 115 Athenian envoys appeared at Sparta with a formal complaint against the Aiginetans.
1934 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. II. 49 The Aeginetans anticipated, on a small scale, the Athenians' achievements.
1989 Oxf. Compan. Classical Lit. (ed. 2) 8/1 In 431, at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, which the Aeginetans helped to foment, the Athenians expelled the whole population from the island.
2007 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 10 Jan. 9 In 510 BC, at the highest pinnacle of their power (and at the highest point of the island), the Aeginetans built a temple to their goddess Aphaia.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Aegina or its inhabitants.
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1720 J. Burchett Compl. Hist. Trans. at Sea Index Amynias the Æginetan Admiral, his Valour.
1791 W. Rutherford View Antient Hist. II. xv. 18 The Æginetan war had taught the ship-builder and engineer the advantages of their art.
1845 P. Smith in W. Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Ant. at Talentum The Aeginetan mina was, according to the existing coins, 5l. 14s. 7d.
1887 B. V. Head Historia Numorum 333 After the great defeat of the Athenians, Lysander restored the remnant of the Aeginetan population to their old homes.
1922 P. N. Ure Origin of Tyranny vi. 171 The earliest Aeginetan drachmae weighed a little more than those of later issues.
1984 Classical Philol. 76 18 In trying to determine the Aeginetan attitude toward the allied defection from Pausanias' leadership, we are hampered by the uncertainty over the very presence of an Aeginetan contingent in the fleet.
2005 Hermes 133 301 A successful athlete with an illustrious career, Euthymenes won Aeginetan crowns as both a man and a youth.
Compounds
Aeginetan marbles n. a collection of sculptures originally decorating the pediment of the temple of the goddess Aphaea in Aegina, now held by the Glyptothek museum in Munich.
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1832 Episcopal Watchman 9 June 18/4 Ægina..has been known to the lovers of the fine arts through the Æginetan marbles discovered here a few years since.
1967 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 71 11 His archaic virtues evoke, so to speak, the Aeginetan marbles in the age of the Parthenon.
2005 H. F. Mallgrave Mod. Archit. Theory iv. 77 Bertel Thorwaldsen, the sculptor who had restored the Aeginetan marbles before their transportation to Munich.
Aeginetan school n. a style of ancient Greek sculpture typified by the Aeginetan marbles; (also) the body of sculptors who worked in this style.
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1829 Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 1 197 In its ruins was found a fragment,..clothed in the close formal drapery of the Eginetan school, and apparently a work of great antiquity.
1896 Classical Rev. 10 404/1 The Tübingen hoplitodromos is not mentioned among the works of the Aeginetan school.
1961 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 81 220/1 One admires, but not with implicit trust, the confidence with which the Aeginetan school is distinguished from other contemporary schools as the source of this particular head.
2002 L. A. Reprecht Was Greek Thought Religious? viii. 136 Both men comment at length on the existence of an ‘Aeginetan school’ of sculpture.
Aeginetan sculptures n. = Aeginetan marbles n.
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1838 Foreign Q. Rev. Oct. 77 The Eginetan sculptures preceded, and..doubtless formed a model for the later perfection of Athens in the age of Pericles.
1955 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 59 19/2 A head of poor Parian marble with a few crystals in it, like many of the Aeginetan sculptures.
1998 Hist. & Theory 37 94 From today's point of view Hegel's treatment of the Aeginetan sculptures, a celebrated acquisition of the Bavarian Collections in his time, is almost unbelievable.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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