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Tyrrhenian, a. and n.|tɪˈriːnɪən|
[f. L. Tyrrhēn-us (see prec.) or Tyrrhēnia Etruria.]
a. adj. Of or pertaining to the Tyrrheni or their country; Etruscan, Etrurian.
b. n. One of the Tyrrheni; an Etruscan.
Tyrrhenian Sea, the sea lying between the mainland of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
1660Stanley Hist. Philos. ix. Pythagoras i. (1687) 492/1 Suidas saith, That Pythagoras was..by birth a Tyrrhenian. 1711J. Clarke tr. Grotius' Chr. Relig. ii. xii. 112 note, [See] Diodorus, Book v, concerning the Tyrrhenians. 1788Lemprière Class. Dict., Mezentius, a king of the Tyrrhenians when æneas came into Italy. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 327 æneas..steered his course for Italy across the Tyrrhenian sea. 1857Birch Anc. Pottery (1858) II. 77 The amphora called Tyrrhenian differs only in its general proportion from the two preceding kinds. |