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Sicyonian, n. and a.|sɪkɪˈəʊnɪən|
Also 7 Sicionian; Sikyonian.
[f. L. Sicyōnius, f. Sicyōn, a. Gr. σικυών: see -ian.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of Sicyon, an ancient Greek city in the northern Peloponnese.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Sicyon.
1642J. Howell Forraine Travell xvi. 206 Among the Sicionians there were admitted..[no] Physitians. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 126/2 They [sc. Dipœnus and Scyllis] were employed by the Sicyonians to make for them certain statues of their gods. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 32/2 Clisthenes was the most powerful and famous of the Sicyonian despots. 1958R. Liddell Morea ii. i. 41 There is also a small sanctuary of the nymphs: here Sicyonian brides made offerings. 1976R. J. Hopper Early Greeks viii. 214 His victorious chariot was later preserved at Delphi under a form of baldacchino, the ‘Sikyonian monopteros’ decorated with archaic sculpture. |