| 释义 |
Marsian, n. and a.|ˈmɑːsɪən|
[f. prec. + -an.]
A. n.
a. One of the Marsi.
b. The language of the Marsi.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Marsi or their language. Also ˈMarsic a.
1578tr. Appian's Auncient Hist. Romanes Warres 1. 29 C. Marius did followe valiantly the Marsians that lay against them. 1632J. Vicars tr. Virgil's Aeneid vii. 972 Herbs that grow on Marsian mountains high. 1697Dryden tr. Virgil's Georgics 11. 230 Hence rose the Marsian and Sabellian Race. 1764N. Hooke Roman Hist. III. vii. viii. 108 (heading) The war called the Marsic, the Social, the Italic war. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 327/1 Oscan or Samnite..the language of the Sabines, the Marsians, and the Volscians, of which but scanty traces remain. 1883C. C. Perkins Hist. Handbk. Italian Sculpture i. i. 21 The ruins of the old Marsian city of Alba. 1890Cent. Dict., Marsic. 1897R. S. Conway Italic Dial. I. 288 The Marsian, Aequian and Faliscan inscc...vary from the normal urban Latin of their time. 1933C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 24 The Oscan–Umbrian group..includes also the minor dialects of central Italy, as Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestinian, Volscian, Marsian, Sabine, [etc.]. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 334 The third group, conventionally termed Sabellian, occupies a position midway between Oscan and Umbrian, but its remains are lamentably scanty. Here belong Paelignian, Marrucinian, Vestinian, Volscian, Marsian, Aequian, and Sabine. 1940E. H. Warmington Remains Old Latin IV. 59 Dialect-Latin or mixed Marsian and Latin. Ibid., A sacred gift to Angitia on behalf of Marsian legions. 1949Oxf. Classical Dict. 541/2 The Marsi..took the initiative in demanding Roman citizenship in the Social War (hence often called Marsic War). Ibid., Marsic magicians were famous for miraculous snake-bite cures. 1974[see Marrucinian n. and a.]. |