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Epidaurian, n. and a.|ɛpɪˈdɔərɪən|
[f. Gr. Ἐπιδαύρος, L. Epidaurus (see below) + -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Epidaurus, a centre for the cult of Asclepius, in the north-east Peloponnese.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Epidaurus or its inhabitants.
1589Almond for Parrat sig. E2 The Epidaurians provident subtiltie. 1608Topsell Serpents 157 The Epidaurian dragons..were dedicated to Aesculapius. 1631B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. i. 16 Faine would I meet the Linceus now, that Eagles eye, that peircing Epidaurian serpent. 1794T. Taylor tr. Pausanias' Descr. Greece I. ii. xxvi. 209 About Lessa, the borders of the Epidaurians join with the land of the Argives. 1830W. 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’. 1856W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Roman Geogr. I. 842/1 The worship of Asclepius by the Epidaurians. 1976Classical Q. XXVI. 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. 1984F. 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. |