单词 | amphictyonic council |
释义 | > as lemmasAmphictyonic council Of, relating to, or of the nature of an Amphictyony (Amphictyony n.); belonging to an Amphictyony. Chiefly in Amphictyonic council, Amphictyonic League. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [adjective] > specific ancient Greek Amphictyonian1643 Amphictyonic1682 1682 W. Charleton Harmony Nat. & Positive Divine Laws i. i. 6 The Dolopes, Magnetes, Phthiotæ, Thessali, and other peoples of Græcia..were under the jurisdiction of the Great Amphictyonic Council at Athens. 1770 T. Leland tr. Demosthenes Orations of Æschines & Demosthenes in Monthly Rev. Aug. 115 Not the vengeance of the Amphictionic council which they denounced against me..could ever tear this affection from my breast. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. x. 375 The affairs of the whole Amphictyonic body were transacted by a congress. 1944 L. Mumford Condition of Man i. 27 Unfortunately, Greater Greece was only a geographic conception: in spite of the amphictyonic council it never achieved political reality. 2006 J. C. Dayton Athletes of War 123 Aeschines is no longer attacking the Thebans, who have destroyed Amphictyonic cities. < as lemmas |
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