Milesiann.¹adj.¹

Brit.

/mʌɪˈliːzɪən/,

/mʌɪˈliːʒn/,

/mᵻˈliːzɪən/,

/mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S.

/məˈliʒ(ə)n/,

/maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/,

/məˈliʃ(ə)n/,

/maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/

Forms: 1500s Milesyan, 1500s– Milesian, 1600s Mylesian.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French Milesien ; Latin Mīlēsius , -an suffix.

Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French †Milesien, noun and adjective (French Milésien ; 1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A.), and partly < its etymon classical Latin Mīlēsius (noun) a native or inhabitant of Miletus, (adjective) of or relating to Miletus ( < ancient Greek Μιλήσιος, noun and adjective < Μίλητος (classical Latin Mīlētus) Miletus, the name of a city in Asia Minor + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix.The form Miletian occurs earlier in sense B. 2, but probably represents an independent formation < either English Miletus or classical Latin Mīlētus + -ian suffix rather than a variant of this word. Compare:1690 W. Temple Ess. upon Poetry (1909) 60 The next Succession of Poetry in Prose seems to have been in the Miletian Tales.

A. n.¹

A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun]

MedeeOE

PartheOE

PuniceOE

NineviteOE

Trojanc1330

sodomitea1382

Phoeniciana1387

Macedonianc1400

Parthianc1400

Macedonc1440

Phrygian?1473

Mycenaeanc1487

Tyrian1513

Sidonian?1520

Galatian1526

Canaanite1530

Cananaean1534

Milesian1550

Sogdian1553

Syrophœnician1560

Molossian1563

Hyrcanian1567

Palmyrene1567

Pergamenian1579

Smyrnian1579

Mysian1581

Carthaginian1592

Punican1595

Lycian1598

Smyrnaean1598

Phocaean1600

Gallo-greeks1601

Iberian1601

Minaean1601

Susian1601

Cappadocian1607

Carian1607

Paphlagonian1607

Hamathite1611

Pergamene1612

Byzantiana1620

Gallo-graecians1619

Chalcidian1654

Philadelphiana1680

Xanthian1685

Palmyrenian1697

Isaurian1776

Dardan1813

Byzantine1836

Bœotian1839

Ilian1847

Susianian1874

Libyo-Phœnician1876

Khaldian1882

Mitannian1907

Iconian1911

Petraean1923

Lycaonian1926

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. sig. Siiii verso They had in their compaignie the succours of Milesyans, of Andryens and of Caristians.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliii. 1159 The Milesians for their part said, That hitherto they had done nothing.

1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. iii. 35/1 The Milesians in the dayes of yore were valiant.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 1 Anaximander a Milesian.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom.

1776 W. Ellis tr. Aristotle Treat. on Govt. i. xi. 36 As in the Contrivance of Thales the Milesian.

1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 472 The Milesians were unable to maintain themselves in Priene and turned to Athens.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 81/2 It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians.

1962 A. R. Burn Persia & Greeks 361 Hekataios failed to carry his motion, and his strategy was not tried; nor in any case would it have saved the Milesians, since the trial of strength at sea ended in defeat.

1981 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 42 378 The writings of the Milesians, if any existed at all, could only be described as memoranda, notes to themselves.

B. adj.¹

1. Of or relating to Miletus or to its inhabitants.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Asia Minor and Middle East > other ancient cities

BabylonisheOE

Tyrian1513

Milesian1579

Smyrnian1579

Babylonical1597

Tiberian1601

Phocaean1614

Teian1647

Xanthian1685

Smyrnaean1807

Petraean1852

Smyrniote1867

Chalcidic1876

Chalcidian1880

Tarsian1895

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective]

NinevitishOE

Trojanc1374

Sardian1551

Susian?1552

Illyrian1556

Phoenician?1556

Hyrcan1567

Sidonian1578

Phrygian1579

Smyrnian1579

Lycaonian1582

Paphlagonian1596

Lycian1598

Galatian1603

Cappadocian1607

Canaanite1613

Mysian1613

Phocaean1614

Phrygic1614

Dardana1616

Babylonized1701

Pergamene1703

Milesiana1722

Canaanitic1753

Palmyrenian1776

Smyrnaean1807

Troic1838

Minaean1844

Ninevite1848

Smyrniote1867

Isaurian1880

Mitannian1897

Iconian1899

Mitannite1911

Thraco-Phrygian1924

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 621 Many of their kinges..were borne of the Ionian and Milesian curtisans.

1602 I. B. in F. Beaumont tr. Ovid Salmacis & Hermaphroditus Pref. Verses Or wanton Nymphs in watry bowres haue woue, With fine Mylesian threds, the verse he sings.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 599 The Calabrian, Milesian, and Arentinean sheepe.

1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) iii. 102 In rich Milesian Fleeces cloth'd.

1684 Mr. Amhurst tr. Marcus Crassus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 563 The People of Seleucia, had reason to commend the Wisdom of Esop's fable of the Sack, seeing their General Syrena carrying a bag full of loose Milesian Sonnets before him.

a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxv. 297 Lysander sent off the Milesian privateer Theopompus to proclaim it [sc. the victory] at Sparta.

1883 Harper's Mag. July 212/1 In the midst..Lay proud Scopas, lord of Cranon, On Milesian purples couched at ease.

1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. V. 124 The Milesian deportees were settled at the mouth of the River Tigris.

1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. vii. 191 Since it would be erroneous to call this Hippodamian planning, I shall follow Roland Martin and call it Milesian, after Miletus, the chief point of origin.

1999 Isis 90 575 The first three sections of the book, which start with the Milesian school of thought, progress to Leucippus, Democritus, and Empedocles.

2. Milesian tale n. (also Milesian story) [after Hellenistic Greek τὰ Μιλησιακά (classical Latin Milesiae, short for Milesiae fabulae), the title of a collection of stories by Aristides (2nd cent. b.c.); probably so called because Miletus was the traditional setting for the genre] an erotic short story of a type produced by ancient Greek and Roman novelists.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > a romance > specific

atalantis1709

Milesian tale?1799

family romance1814

?1799 S. T. Coleridge Catullian Hendecasyllables in Poems 1787–1833 Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story!

1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives III. 373 Certain wanton books, of the writings of Aristides, his Milesiaca..had been found among the baggage of Rustius... Rustius..is not to be excused, but the Parthians had forgot, when they mocked at the Milesian stories, that many of the royal line of their Arsacidæ had been born of Milesian and Ionian mistresses.

1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 319/1 The Milesian tale..grew in the hands of Petronius and Apuleius into the satirical romance.

1946 G. Stimpson Thousand Things 193 A class of short, salacious stories that were current two thousand years ago are known as Milesian tales.

1976 Renaissance Q. 29 191 I would like to suggest tentatively that the group of stories commonly known as Milesian tales may be an example of this kind of transmission.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Milesianadj.²n.²

Brit.

/mʌɪˈliːzɪən/,

/mʌɪˈliːʒn/,

/mᵻˈliːzɪən/,

/mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S.

/məˈliʒ(ə)n/,

/maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/,

/məˈliʃ(ə)n/,

/maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Milesius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < Milesius, Latinized form of Irish Míl Espáine, the name of a legendary Spanish king whose sons (as reported in Lebor Gabála) are reputed to have conquered and reorganized the ancient kingdom of Ireland about 1300 b.c. + -an suffix.

A. adj.²

Of or relating to Milesius or his people; Irish.See also Scot n.¹ 1, 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective]

IrishOE

Ersea1464

Milesiana1599

Irishy1845

Oirish1886

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 31 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) All which are in truth fables, and very Milesian lyes, as the later proverbe is: for never was there such a King of Spaine, called Milesius.

1705 M. Kennedy (title) A Chronological Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Royal Family of the Stuarts, beginning with Milesius the stock of those they call the Milesian Irish, and of the old Scotish Race.

1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxv As a Scotsman, and, of course, descended of the Milesian race, I might have committed some of those oversights..said to be peculiar to them.

1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland 102 Some Irish annalists affirm, that the Picts..were tributary to the Milesian Scots of Ireland.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The wild Milesian features..salute you on all highways and byways.

1884 Spectator 4 Oct. 1298/2 If..only the pure Milesian race should own the soil..the country would be under-populated.

1890 D. Hyde in tr. Beside Fire Pref. p. xix Some of the Scotch stories may have been bequeathed to the Gaelic language by those races who were displaced by the Milesian Conquest in the fifth century.

1929 P. Guedalla Missing Muse 223 The tourist notes..an almost total absence of Milesian eloquence.

2004 P. B. Ellis Celts iii. 29 The symbolism goes even further back, to the tradition of the Milesian invasion.

B. n.²

A member of the people descended from the companions of Milesius; (sometimes humorous) an Irish person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland

IrishmanOE

Ireis1297

hooded mana1464

Mac1518

Irish1553

Teague?1661

bog-trotter1682

Milesian1682

dear joy1688

Teaguelander1689

paddy1714

bog-lander1736

bog-stalkera1758

brogueneer1758

paddywhack1773

Pat1796

West Briton1805

Irisher1807

Patlander1820

Greek1823

Mick1850

redneck1852

Grecian1853

mickeyc1854

Mike1859

harp1904

1682 P. Walsh Prospect State Irel. To Rdr. sig. b2 So little he has of the very Milesians, or their Antiquities or Actions.

1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet 274 So, when the Milesians invaded Ireland, they spoke the same language with the inhabitants, who had been there very early after the deluge.

1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton I. 54 The old Irish families stile themselves Milesians, from Milesius, a Spaniard, who brought over a colony of his countrymen to people the island.

1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The English coachman..lashes the Milesian with his whip.

1847 A. Trollope Macdermots I. ii. 12 A something Macdermot, true Milesian, pious Catholic, and descendant of king somebody, died somewhere.

1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 167 And lastly the Milesians. The Milesian being a literary and honorific cognomen of the Firbolgs' conquerors, the Gaels.

1971 It 2 June 24/1 There is to be noticed a marked difference between the [legendary] tribes and races mentioned above and the first groups of wholly human invaders to reach these shores, who were called the Milesians or ‘Sons of Miledh’.

1994 M. Heaney Over Nine Waves p. x After their final defeat by the Milesians, the Tuatha De Dannan went underground to live in the sidhes, those earthworks and raths that are scattered all over Ireland.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	milesian
释义	Milesiann.¹adj.¹ Brit. /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/, /mʌɪˈliːʒn/, /mᵻˈliːzɪən/, /mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S. /məˈliʒ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/, /məˈliʃ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/ Forms: 1500s Milesyan, 1500s– Milesian, 1600s Mylesian. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French Milesien ; Latin Mīlēsius , -an suffix. Etymology: Partly < Middle French, French †Milesien, noun and adjective (French Milésien ; 1545 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A.), and partly < its etymon classical Latin Mīlēsius (noun) a native or inhabitant of Miletus, (adjective) of or relating to Miletus ( < ancient Greek Μιλήσιος, noun and adjective < Μίλητος (classical Latin Mīlētus) Miletus, the name of a city in Asia Minor + -ιος, suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix.The form Miletian occurs earlier in sense B. 2, but probably represents an independent formation < either English Miletus or classical Latin Mīlētus + -ian suffix rather than a variant of this word. Compare:1690 W. Temple Ess. upon Poetry (1909) 60 The next Succession of Poetry in Prose seems to have been in the Miletian Tales. A. n.¹ A native or inhabitant of ancient Miletus, a city in Asia Minor. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [noun] MedeeOE PartheOE PuniceOE NineviteOE Trojanc1330 sodomitea1382 Phoeniciana1387 Macedonianc1400 Parthianc1400 Macedonc1440 Phrygian?1473 Mycenaeanc1487 Tyrian1513 Sidonian?1520 Galatian1526 Canaanite1530 Cananaean1534 Milesian1550 Sogdian1553 Syrophœnician1560 Molossian1563 Hyrcanian1567 Palmyrene1567 Pergamenian1579 Smyrnian1579 Mysian1581 Carthaginian1592 Punican1595 Lycian1598 Smyrnaean1598 Phocaean1600 Gallo-greeks1601 Iberian1601 Minaean1601 Susian1601 Cappadocian1607 Carian1607 Paphlagonian1607 Hamathite1611 Pergamene1612 Byzantiana1620 Gallo-graecians1619 Chalcidian1654 Philadelphiana1680 Xanthian1685 Palmyrenian1697 Isaurian1776 Dardan1813 Byzantine1836 Bœotian1839 Ilian1847 Susianian1874 Libyo-Phœnician1876 Khaldian1882 Mitannian1907 Iconian1911 Petraean1923 Lycaonian1926 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War iv. sig. Siiii verso They had in their compaignie the succours of Milesyans, of Andryens and of Caristians. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xliii. 1159 The Milesians for their part said, That hitherto they had done nothing. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iv. iii. 35/1 The Milesians in the dayes of yore were valiant. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 1 Anaximander a Milesian. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom. 1776 W. Ellis tr. Aristotle Treat. on Govt. i. xi. 36 As in the Contrivance of Thales the Milesian. 1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 472 The Milesians were unable to maintain themselves in Priene and turned to Athens. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 81/2 It probably was originally a Thracian town, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians. 1962 A. R. Burn Persia & Greeks 361 Hekataios failed to carry his motion, and his strategy was not tried; nor in any case would it have saved the Milesians, since the trial of strength at sea ended in defeat. 1981 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 42 378 The writings of the Milesians, if any existed at all, could only be described as memoranda, notes to themselves. B. adj.¹ 1. Of or relating to Miletus or to its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Asia Minor and Middle East > other ancient cities BabylonisheOE Tyrian1513 Milesian1579 Smyrnian1579 Babylonical1597 Tiberian1601 Phocaean1614 Teian1647 Xanthian1685 Smyrnaean1807 Petraean1852 Smyrniote1867 Chalcidic1876 Chalcidian1880 Tarsian1895 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of ancient cities or states > [adjective] NinevitishOE Trojanc1374 Sardian1551 Susian?1552 Illyrian1556 Phoenician?1556 Hyrcan1567 Sidonian1578 Phrygian1579 Smyrnian1579 Lycaonian1582 Paphlagonian1596 Lycian1598 Galatian1603 Cappadocian1607 Canaanite1613 Mysian1613 Phocaean1614 Phrygic1614 Dardana1616 Babylonized1701 Pergamene1703 Milesiana1722 Canaanitic1753 Palmyrenian1776 Smyrnaean1807 Troic1838 Minaean1844 Ninevite1848 Smyrniote1867 Isaurian1880 Mitannian1897 Iconian1899 Mitannite1911 Thraco-Phrygian1924 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 621 Many of their kinges..were borne of the Ionian and Milesian curtisans. 1602 I. B. in F. Beaumont tr. Ovid Salmacis & Hermaphroditus Pref. Verses Or wanton Nymphs in watry bowres haue woue, With fine Mylesian threds, the verse he sings. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 599 The Calabrian, Milesian, and Arentinean sheepe. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) iii. 102 In rich Milesian Fleeces cloth'd. 1684 Mr. Amhurst tr. Marcus Crassus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives III. 563 The People of Seleucia, had reason to commend the Wisdom of Esop's fable of the Sack, seeing their General Syrena carrying a bag full of loose Milesian Sonnets before him. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 126 The Barbarian army..made an irruption into the Milesian territory, and seiz'd upon those women; whom the Milesians were forc'd to ransom. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxv. 297 Lysander sent off the Milesian privateer Theopompus to proclaim it [sc. the victory] at Sparta. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 212/1 In the midst..Lay proud Scopas, lord of Cranon, On Milesian purples couched at ease. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. V. 124 The Milesian deportees were settled at the mouth of the River Tigris. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. vii. 191 Since it would be erroneous to call this Hippodamian planning, I shall follow Roland Martin and call it Milesian, after Miletus, the chief point of origin. 1999 Isis 90 575 The first three sections of the book, which start with the Milesian school of thought, progress to Leucippus, Democritus, and Empedocles. 2. Milesian tale n. (also Milesian story) [after Hellenistic Greek τὰ Μιλησιακά (classical Latin Milesiae, short for Milesiae fabulae), the title of a collection of stories by Aristides (2nd cent. b.c.); probably so called because Miletus was the traditional setting for the genre] an erotic short story of a type produced by ancient Greek and Roman novelists. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > romance > [noun] > a romance > specific atalantis1709 Milesian tale?1799 family romance1814 ?1799 S. T. Coleridge Catullian Hendecasyllables in Poems 1787–1833 Hear, my belovéd, an old Milesian story! 1859 A. H. Clough tr. Plutarch Lives III. 373 Certain wanton books, of the writings of Aristides, his Milesiaca..had been found among the baggage of Rustius... Rustius..is not to be excused, but the Parthians had forgot, when they mocked at the Milesian stories, that many of the royal line of their Arsacidæ had been born of Milesian and Ionian mistresses. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 319/1 The Milesian tale..grew in the hands of Petronius and Apuleius into the satirical romance. 1946 G. Stimpson Thousand Things 193 A class of short, salacious stories that were current two thousand years ago are known as Milesian tales. 1976 Renaissance Q. 29 191 I would like to suggest tentatively that the group of stories commonly known as Milesian tales may be an example of this kind of transmission. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Milesianadj.²n.² Brit. /mʌɪˈliːzɪən/, /mʌɪˈliːʒn/, /mᵻˈliːzɪən/, /mᵻˈliːʒn/, U.S. /məˈliʒ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʒ(ə)n/, /məˈliʃ(ə)n/, /maɪˈliʃ(ə)n/ Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Milesius , -an suffix. Etymology: < Milesius, Latinized form of Irish Míl Espáine, the name of a legendary Spanish king whose sons (as reported in Lebor Gabála) are reputed to have conquered and reorganized the ancient kingdom of Ireland about 1300 b.c. + -an suffix. A. adj.² Of or relating to Milesius or his people; Irish.See also Scot n.¹ 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [adjective] IrishOE Ersea1464 Milesiana1599 Irishy1845 Oirish1886 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 31 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) All which are in truth fables, and very Milesian lyes, as the later proverbe is: for never was there such a King of Spaine, called Milesius. 1705 M. Kennedy (title) A Chronological Genealogical and Historical Dissertation of the Royal Family of the Stuarts, beginning with Milesius the stock of those they call the Milesian Irish, and of the old Scotish Race. 1763 J. Macpherson Temora Diss. p. xxv As a Scotsman, and, of course, descended of the Milesian race, I might have committed some of those oversights..said to be peculiar to them. 1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland 102 Some Irish annalists affirm, that the Picts..were tributary to the Milesian Scots of Ireland. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The wild Milesian features..salute you on all highways and byways. 1884 Spectator 4 Oct. 1298/2 If..only the pure Milesian race should own the soil..the country would be under-populated. 1890 D. Hyde in tr. Beside Fire Pref. p. xix Some of the Scotch stories may have been bequeathed to the Gaelic language by those races who were displaced by the Milesian Conquest in the fifth century. 1929 P. Guedalla Missing Muse 223 The tourist notes..an almost total absence of Milesian eloquence. 2004 P. B. Ellis Celts iii. 29 The symbolism goes even further back, to the tradition of the Milesian invasion. B. n.² A member of the people descended from the companions of Milesius; (sometimes humorous) an Irish person. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland IrishmanOE Ireis1297 hooded mana1464 Mac1518 Irish1553 Teague?1661 bog-trotter1682 Milesian1682 dear joy1688 Teaguelander1689 paddy1714 bog-lander1736 bog-stalkera1758 brogueneer1758 paddywhack1773 Pat1796 West Briton1805 Irisher1807 Patlander1820 Greek1823 Mick1850 redneck1852 Grecian1853 mickeyc1854 Mike1859 harp1904 1682 P. Walsh Prospect State Irel. To Rdr. sig. b2 So little he has of the very Milesians, or their Antiquities or Actions. 1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet 274 So, when the Milesians invaded Ireland, they spoke the same language with the inhabitants, who had been there very early after the deluge. 1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton I. 54 The old Irish families stile themselves Milesians, from Milesius, a Spaniard, who brought over a colony of his countrymen to people the island. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iv. 28 The English coachman..lashes the Milesian with his whip. 1847 A. Trollope Macdermots I. ii. 12 A something Macdermot, true Milesian, pious Catholic, and descendant of king somebody, died somewhere. 1921 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 167 And lastly the Milesians. The Milesian being a literary and honorific cognomen of the Firbolgs' conquerors, the Gaels. 1971 It 2 June 24/1 There is to be noticed a marked difference between the [legendary] tribes and races mentioned above and the first groups of wholly human invaders to reach these shores, who were called the Milesians or ‘Sons of Miledh’. 1994 M. Heaney Over Nine Waves p. x After their final defeat by the Milesians, the Tuatha De Dannan went underground to live in the sidhes, those earthworks and raths that are scattered all over Ireland. 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