Massiliann.adj.

1563 R. Reynolds Foundacion of Rhetorike f. 31 Marcus Attilius..his right hand being cut of, the which he laide on the ship of the Massilians.

1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xliii. f. 164 At her syght he was so astraught, that..he made peace with y^e Massiliens.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. iv. 55 Townes in the other parts..namely, Agatha, in times past belonging to the Massilians.

1619 T. Milles tr. P. Mexia et al. Αρχαιο-πλουτος i. xvi. 58/2 Aristotle..calleth the Common-wealth of the Massilians Oligarchia, and not Aristocratia.

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 103 With ready Arms our glad Massilians wait.

1847 Amer. Whig Rev. Aug. 140/1 Among the Massilians, and, indeed, in some portions of the Roman Empire, the magistrates had the power of deciding whether a person applying should be permitted to kill himself.

1882 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 129 The western Mediterranean had not become a Carthaginian lake; Massilians, Tyrrhenians, and Latins had all their appointed districts or prescribed rights.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Sept. 617/2 The voyage of the Massilian Pytheas.

1994 Classical Q. New Ser. 44 210 The imagery of gigantomachia that begins the proem..is picked up by the speech of the Massilians to Caesar.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iii. 97 Whilst that other Citties feare, The thundring fame of him to heare, Massilian youthes dare take in hand, As Neuters in these warres to stand.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 149 He wou'd not believe the antient Greec and Massilian sailors.

1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife iv. 153 What day the carcass-heap'd Massilian shore Reek'd with the blood of battle's worst mischance.

1878 Contemp. Rev. 31 695 Tomb got its b from the French, which probably had it from the Massilian Greek.

1885 G. A. Sala Journey Due South (ed. 2) 28 Since the substitution of the Brindisian for the Massilian point of departure of the Indian mail, Marseilles has [etc.].

1920 Times 20 Dec. 8/1 What could be more charming than to spend days and years..harvesting who knows what treasures of Roman and Massilian coin.

1963 M. Cary & E. H. Warmington Anc. Explorers (rev. ed.) ii. 36 Syracusan and Massilian traders could join hands in the ports of Rome.

2000 Publishers Weekly (Nexis) 14 Aug. 324 A cloaked woman falls from Sacrifice Rock, perhaps assisted by a man dressed in the armor of a Massilian soldier.