单词 | quirites |
释义 | Quiritesn. Roman History. Roman citizens collectively, esp. as a legal entity. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Romans > [noun] RomanishOE Quiritesa1398 S.P.Q.R.1565 gown-sept1582 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 334 Persius..seiþ þat buccina made þe olde qwyrites arraye hemself nameliche in armure. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 5671 Þe worþi knyȝtes of rome bare þe name After hym [sc. Quirinus], & were querytes callid. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xiii. 76 Or ellis þe prisk latyne men, has faleȝit or done Iniuris aganis þe quirites & romane pepil. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. 49 O Quirites, ye shall not need to feare any harme from Velia for me. 1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War viii. 222 Quirites! You to whom Belongs the chief Command, to you I come. 1749 J. Lockman New Rom. Hist. 71 The Plebiscita should bind the Quirites or Citizens of all Ranks and Degrees whatsoever. 1843 Times 21 Sept. 4/3 His theory, grateful as it was to the Quirites of the gallery, was far from welcome to the aristocratic party on the platform. 1861 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 414/2 The context seems to favour the notion that the Quirites were tossing off Falernian [wine]. 1926 E. Adams tr. J. M. Declareuil Rome Law-giver iii. iii. 117 The president of the comitia enquired..of the Quirites whether they ordered this to be done. 1998 Classical Q. New Ser. 48 246 Umbricius..might be carried away by his own rhetorical impetus. One example is his apostrophe to the Quirites. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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