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‖ Zeus|zjuːs|
[Gr. Ζεύς, gen. Διός, related to L. Jovis (gen.): see Jove, Jupiter.]
1. Myth. Name of the supreme deity of the ancient Greeks; cf. Jupiter. Hence allusively.
1920Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Apr. 207/4 The Zeus of Weimar [sc. Goethe] was the last person we should have imagined comparable with our Swan of Avon!
b. Comb.
1839T. Mitchell Frogs of Aristoph. Add. 411 Cretan Zeus-worship. a1861Clough Poems (1869) II. 464 You are the hatefullest to me of the Zeus-fed princes. 1875Browning Aristoph. Apol. Poet. Wks. 1896 I. 730/1 The hapless Zeus-born offspring. 1880Jebb in Encycl. Brit. XI. 140/1 Legends of warlike deeds done by Zeus-nourished kings.
2. Ichthyol. A genus of spiny-finned fishes, including the John Dory, Zeus faber, anciently sacred to Zeus or Jupiter.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Zeüs, a Fish taken about Cadiz.., of a black Colour and very delicate. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 274 The red Zeus, with an even tail. 1854Badham Halieut. 48 His own fish Zeus, the dory [was offered] to Jupiter. |