Hellenophilen.adj.

1880 Times 7 Aug. 5/1 All French statesmen and journalists, with the exception of M. Gambetta and a few dangerous Hellenophils, condemn the policy of active intervention in Eastern affairs.

1898 P. Geddes in Ethical World 12 Mar. 167/1 The Turcophobes and Turcophiles, the Hellenophobes and Hellenophiles, Armenophobes and Armenophiles of recent journalism.

1932 K. Bercovici Incredible Balkans viii. 149 After several attempts at organizing the Greeks and reëstablishing the Byzantine Empire—not because she was a Hellenophile but because she wanted to weaken Turkish power—she gave up the job as a bad one.

1966 Listener 6 Jan. 34/3 Another Hellenophile's reluctant conversion to the spell of the old Turkey.

2006 Metro 12 June (London ed.) 19/3 The foppish ghost of the legendary poet, Hellenophile and all-round hedonist, George Gordon Byron, is said to haunt the halls of Newstead Abbey in Nottingham.

1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly iii. 60 A little splutter of Hellenophile and Radical agitation in this country.

1933 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 37 595 The incorporation of Greek elements characterizing the second palace is thus explained through the occupation of the palace by a hellenophile king.

1959 Encounter July 48/1 A few Greek and hellenophil critics acclaimed Kazantzakis's poem as a masterpiece.

1998 Mod. Lang. Rev. 93 1167 Nietzsche's indebtedness to a tradition of Hellenophile cultural criticism.