| 单词 | exile-hunter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexile-hunter exile-hunter n. [after Hellenistic Greek ϕυγαδοθήρας] Greek History any of a group who pursued fugitives on the orders of Antipater, a Macedonian general of the 4th cent. b.c., spec. Archias, their leader. ΚΠ 1686 tr. Plutarch Lives V. 290 Archias was their Captain, and was thence called ϕυγαδοθέρας [sic], or the exile Hunter. 1856 G. Grote Hist. Greece XII. ii. xcv. 439 The officers of Antipater, called in the language of the time Exile-Hunters, were..on the look-out to seize these proscribed men. 1914 A. W. Pickard-Cambridge Demosthenes xiii. 485 Archias of Thurii, surnamed ‘the exile-hunter’, seized Hypereides, Himeraeus, and Aristonicus..and sent them to Antipater at Cleonæ, where they were executed. 2014 C. Cooper in M. Beck Compan. to Plutarch iii. xxvi. 393 Antipater responded by dispatching troops under the command of Archias, the so-called Exile-hunter, to track down the fugitives. < as lemmas |
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