Sicyoniann.adj.
/sɪkɪˈəʊnɪən/ A. n.
A native or inhabitant of Sicyon, an ancient Greek city in the northern Peloponnese.
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Thebienc1374
Spartiatec1384
myrmidonc1425
Spartanc1425
Phocianc1487
Argive?1532
Locrian1536
Locrensian1542
Achaean1550
Mantinean1550
Mytilenean1550
Tegeate1584
Pylian1585
Epidaurian?1589
Thessalian1608
Olympian1609
Sicyonian1642
Samothracian1653
Dorian1662
Attic1699
Tegean1709
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xvi. 206 Among the Sicionians there were admitted..[no] Physitians.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 126/2 They [sc. Dipœnus and Scyllis] were employed by the Sicyonians to make for them certain statues of their gods.
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 32/2 The Olympian treasury of the Sicyonians.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to Sicyon.
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Doric1569
philippic1569
Spartan1582
Dorical1592
Epidaurian1608
Phocian1614
Dorian1662
Mytilenean1724
Samothracian1803
Sicyonian1887
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 32/2 Clisthenes was the most powerful and famous of the Sicyonian despots.
1958 R. Liddell Morea ii. i. 41 There is also a small sanctuary of the nymphs: here Sicyonian brides made offerings.
1976 R. J. Hopper Early Greeks viii. 214 His victorious chariot was later preserved at Delphi under a form of baldacchino, the ‘Sikyonian monopteros’ decorated with archaic sculpture.
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