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Macedon|ˈmæsɪdən|
[ad. L. Macedon-em (Macedo), Gr. Μακεδόν-α (-ών).]
†1.
a. One of the people (to which Alexander the Great belonged) that inhabited ancient Macedonia. Obs.
[1382Wyclif 2 Cor. ix. 4 When Macedonyes schulen come with me.] a1400–50Alexander 934, 1179, 1253, etc., Messadones, Messedones, -edoyns, Mas(s)idons. 1594Kyd Cornelia i. 63 Macedons or Medes. 1632Massinger City Madam iv. ii, The valiant Macedon..Lamented that there were no more [worlds] to conquer. 1700Dryden Fables, To Duchess of Ormond 133 As once the Macedon, by Jove's decree, Was taught to dream an herb for Ptolemy.
†b. appos. or quasi-adj. = Macedonian. Obs.
1710The Tipling Philosophers 17 Diogenes, Surly and Proud, Who Snarl'd at the Macedon Youth.
2. Anglicized name of ancient Macedonia. arch.
1584C. Robinson Handf. Ples. Delites (Arb.) 46 The famous Prince of Macedon. 1625Bacon Ess., Prophecies, Phillip of Macedon. 1871S. J. Stone Hymn, Through midnight gloom from Macedon. 1940A. H. M. Jones Greek City i. 8 As king of Macedon he [sc. Alexander] could draw as he wished on the resources of Macedonia. 1969A. Toynbee Some Probl. Greek Hist. iv. ii. 426 The invaders found the entire manpower of Macedon arrayed against them. 1969‘M. Renault’ Fire from Heaven (1970) vi. 275 In Athens, the marble tablet which witnessed the peace with Macedon had been torn down, in formal declaration of war. 1972F. W. Walbank Polybius i. 26 Polybius describes with amazement Demetrius of Phalerum's prophecy of the future downfall of Macedon. |