单词 | ortygian |
释义 | Ortygianadj. poetic. Now rare. 1. Of, belonging to, or relating to Ortygia (now Delos), a Greek island in the Cyclades, held in classical mythology to be the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of place associated with Olympianc1487 Ortygian1582 Capitoline1620 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Greece > [adjective] > Greek islands Ionic1483 Rhodiana1533 Candian1559 lesbian1559 Cretan1579 Ionian1579 Ortygian1582 Parianc1602 Lemnian1611 Carpathian1637 lesbic1659 Eubœan1660 Melian1684 Sciote1718 Minoan1830 Naxiote1859 Corfiote1877 Knossian1894 Siphnian1895 Cycladic1915 Leucadian1952 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 48 Wee left Ortigian countrey [L. Ortygiae portus], with nauye we passed By mounts of Nazon too skincking Bacchus alotted. 1605 J. Sylvester in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. Index sig. XX8/2 Ortigian Delos, a floating Iland where Diana, and Apollo were borne. 1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls v. 120 These prayers make Mercury in heaven to smile, Remembring his Ortygian cheat [L. Ortygias boves] yerwhile. 1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Trachiniæ i. iv, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 180 And his [sc. Apollo's] Ortygian Sister [Gk. Ἄρτεμιν Ὀρτυγίαν] likewise..Fire-bearing Diana. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i. 27 A votress of the power Ortygian [L. Ortygiam deam]. 1875 J. Rhoades Timoleon ii. ii. 72 Dionysius in the Ortygian hold Shut fast. 1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 12 Sylvan Artemis, torch-lit Artemis With thy Ortygian girls. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [adjective] > Sicily > parts of Hyblaean1614 Ortygian1697 Hyblan1856 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 294 There lies an Isle once call'd th' Ortygian Land [L. Ortygiam]. a1822 P. B. Shelley Arethusa in Posthumous Poems (1824) 160 And at night they sleep In the rocking deep Beneath the Ortygian shore. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1582 |
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