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Paphlagonian, a. and n.|pæfləˈgəʊnɪən|
[f. Gr. Παϕλαγωνία, L. Paphlagonia, an ancient region in northern Asia Minor + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Paphlagonia or its inhabitants.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Paphlagonia.
Also (spelt Paflagonian) with reference to the fictional people in Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring.
1596T. Nashe Have with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O2v, Procris and Cephalus, and a number of Pamphlagonian things more, that it would rust & yron spot paper, to have but one sillable of their names breathed over it. 1607Topsell Foure-f. Beasts 291 Touching the Paphlagonians about the education of their horsses see more among the Venetians. Ibid. 562 The Paphlagonians, which before the Troyan warre were called Eneti, and afterwards Veneti. 1748Hume Philos. Ess. conc. Human Understanding x. 189 The Impostor..was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the inlisting of Votaries, even among the Grecian Philosophers. 1855Thackeray Rose & Ring i. 4 Two nations which had been engaged in bloody and expensive wars, as the Paflagonians and the Crimeans had been. Ibid. ii. 5 The Paflagonian nobility did not care who was king. 1954T. Gunn Fighting Terms 32 Here in a cave the Paphlagonian King Crouched. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 734/1 The Paphlagonians were one of the most ancient peoples of Anatolia. |