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Mytilenæan, Mytilenean, Mytilenian, n. and a.|mɪtɪˈliːnɪən, mɪtɪlɛˈniːən|
[f. L. Mytilenæus, Gr. Μυτιληναῖος Mytilenæan.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Mytilene, the ancient city and modern capital of the Aegean island of Lesbos.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Mytilene or its inhabitants.
The form Μιτυληναῖος (L. Mitylenæus) also is attested by ancient sources, and is sometimes followed by modern writers in the form Mitylen(a)ean. The name of the modern city is frequently transliterated Mitilini.
1550T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides' Hystory iii. iii. fol. lxxii, The sayde Mytilenians. 1601Holland tr. Pliny's Nat. Hist. v. xxx. 110 Acheleum..founded first by the Mityleneans. 1790W. Mitford Hist. Greece II. xv. 227 The principal Mitylenæans had sent offers to the Lacedæmonian administration to renounce the Athenian. Ibid. 228 The whole Mitylenæan people would go in procession out of the city. 1900J. B. Bury Hist. Greece x. 413 The Mytilenaeans received secret intelligence and postponed the feast. 1911Encycl. Brit. XIX. 887/1 This base coinage..ceases about 450 b.c., when the Mytilenaean silver begins. Ibid. XXI. 73/2 An assembly was held and under the invective of Cleon it was decided to kill all male Mytileneans of military age. 1945G. B. Grundy Fifty-Five Years at Oxford xiv. 221 He could not have supposed that any reader of his history who read the Mytilenian Debate or the Melian Dialogue would regard the Funeral Oration as being a picture of a political..life..at Athens. 1965T. T. B. Ryder Koine Eirene iv. 77 The Athenian people voted a decree of thanks to the Mytileneans for their services in the war against the Spartans. 1968V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates viii. 359 In the Mytilenean debate..Cleon attacks rhetoric. 1972R. Meiggs Athenian Empire iii. 47 We may prefer the different motivation he attributes to the Mytilenaeans. Ibid. xvii. 312 A rich Mytilenaean left two daughters. 1974Guardian 11 Nov. 4/6 Life is rough for the Mytilenians at present. |