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Hyrcanian, n. and a.|hɜːˈkeɪnɪən|
[f. L. Hyrcānia (Gr. Ὑρκανία) + -an. Cf. prec.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Hyrcania, an ancient region on the Caspian Sea.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this region.
Hyrcania was the wild region par excellence to the ancients.
1567W. Barker tr. Xenophon's Discipline of Cyrus viii. sig. C8, Of the Hyrcanians, the Colonells son. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. vii. 41 The Hircanion deserts. 1602― Ham. ii. ii. 472 The rugged Pyrrhus like th'Hyrcanian Beast. 1607[see Cimbrian a. and n.]. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 317 The Hyrcanian cliffs Of Caucasus. 1777J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. 1172/2 The red Hyrcanian or Tabristan willow. 1820Shelley Ode to Liberty viii, in Prometh. Unb. 213 From what Hyrcanian glen or frozen hill,..Didst thou lament the ruin of thy reign? 1824Carlyle Let. 4 Dec. (1909) II. 44 Frightful as the Hyrcanian Tiger. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 419/2 Josephus..mentions a king of the Hyrcanians in the time of Vespasian. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 603/1 In [a.d.] 59 the Hyrcanian ambassadors were able to return home. Ibid., The Hyrcanians were still independent c. 155. 1973R. L. Fox Alexander the Great ix. 141 In the Caicus valley..the colonists from distant Hyrcania..lived on in the land called the Hyrcanian Plain, where Cyrus had settled them two centuries earlier. Ibid. xi. 160 Medes, Armenians, Hyrcanians, North Africans and Persians themselves..fled through the stockade. |