释义 |
[colophonian, a.2 The meaning ‘relating to a colophon or the conclusion of a book’ given in Ogilvie (Annandale, 1881, citing Cudworth) and some later dicts., is app. an error based on the following quot., in which the word means ‘an inhabitant of Colophon’, a town in Lydia.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 226 The same thing is..intimated by Xenophanes the Colophonian. ] |