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Mysian, n. and a.|ˈmɪsɪən|
[f. L. Mysia, Gr. Μυσία Mysia + -an.]
A. n.
a. A native or inhabitant of ancient Mysia in north-west Asia Minor.
b. The language of Mysia.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to ancient Mysia, its inhabitants or its language.
1555[see Bulgarian a. and n.]. 1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. v. xxx. 110 Teuthrania, which the Mysians in old time held. 1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 837 The most despised of all foreign nations. Witness the phrase Μυσῶν λεία, the spoil of the Mysians, applied to any people so poor in spirit, that even the unwarlike Mysians could plunder them with impunity. 1844A. W. Kinglake Eothen iii. 54, I saw, and acknowledged the snowy crown of the Mysian Olympus! 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 122/2 Ancient writers all agree in describing the Mysians as a distinct people,..though they never appear in history as an independent nation. Ibid., 123/1 The only relic of the Mysian language is a very short inscription,..supposed to be in the Mysian dialect. a1936A. E. Housman Coll. Poems (1939) 216 Up the Mysian entry wending, Lydians, Lydians, what is yon? 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Language 383 Of Mysian we may have a scanty inscription of the fourth or third century b.c., consisting of five lines. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 466 Some scholars mention a Mysian, a Cilician and a Cappadocian alphabet. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 142 Mysian, an extinct language, once spoken in Asia Minor... A language of undetermined linguistic affinities, classified as Asianic. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-Europ. Languages 174 In Asia Minor, Mysian is said to have been a living language in the sixth century. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 151/3 The Mysians..were mentioned by Homer as primitive allies of the Trojans. |