单词 | epidaurian |
释义 | Epidauriann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Epidaurus, a centre for the cult of Asclepius, in the north-east Peloponnese. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities Thebienc1374 Spartiatec1384 myrmidonc1425 Spartanc1425 Phocianc1487 Argive?1532 Locrian1536 Locrensian1542 Achaean1550 Mantinean1550 Mytilenean1550 Tegeate1584 Pylian1585 Epidaurian?1589 Thessalian1608 Olympian1609 Sicyonian1642 Samothracian1653 Dorian1662 Attic1699 Tegean1709 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. E2 The Epidaurians provident subtiltie. 1794 T. Taylor tr. Pausanias Descr. Greece I. ii. xxvi. 209 About Lessa, the borders of the Epidaurians join with the land of the Argives. 1854 W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Geogr. I. 842/1 The worship of Asclepius by the Epidaurians. 1984 F. W. Walbank in Cambr. Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) VII. i. xii. 473 At Olympia the Eleans set up a statue representing Antigonus and Philip, crowned, and at Epidaurus the Epidaurians raised an altar to him. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Epidaurus or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [adjective] > states, regions, and cities Doric1569 philippic1569 Spartan1582 Dorical1592 Epidaurian1608 Phocian1614 Dorian1662 Mytilenean1724 Samothracian1803 Sicyonian1887 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 157 The Epidaurian dragons..were dedicated to Aesculapius. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. i. 16 in Wks. II Faine would I meet the Linceus now, that Eagles eye, that peircing Epidaurian serpent (as my Quint. Horace cal's him). 1830 W. M. Leake Trav. Morea II. 426 Strabo..describes the Epidaurian sanctuary as ‘a place renowned for the cure of all sorts of diseases, and always full of invalids’. 1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 263 Even for the Argives the principal object of the Epidaurian war was perhaps to bring enough pressure to bear on Corinth to force her into the alliance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.?1589 |
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