单词 | minyae |
释义 | Minyaen. With plural agreement: the Minyan people of ancient Greece (see Minyan n.1). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person Hellene1482 Pelasgianc1487 Ionian1542 Minyan1566 Minyae1567 Thracian1569 Ionic1577 Hellenian1598 Lapith1607 Minoan1902 Keftian1903 Thraco-Phrygian1946 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxvi. f. 248 Many dedes haue bene done by women for sauegarde of their husbands liues, as that of Minyæ, a sorte of women whose husbands wer imprisoned at Lacedæmon. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 126 Now Phryxus fleece the hardy Minyæ aske: And from the King receiue a dreadfull taske. 1701 E. Sherburne tr. Seneca Medea ii. ii, in tr. Seneca Trag. 31 By us do live The Sons of Boreas, Lynceus..And all the Minyæ, by our Favour, were Preserv'd from Ruin. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vi. 115 I am Jason of the Minyæ, And through great perils have I come from Greece. 1894 F. Clarke tr. A. Holm Hist. Greece I. vii. 65 The oldest accounts of the Minyae are to be found in Homer where the Boeotian Orchomenus is mentioned as a Minyan city. 1934 A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 403 In the Homeric epic, Pylos is not called ‘Minyan’ as Orchomenos is, nor are the Pylians called ‘Minyae’. 1969 A. Toynbee Some Probl. Greek Hist. i. ii. 16 The Minyai were a maritime commercial people who came by sea. 1996 Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. (Electronic ed.) No. 09. 20 The very same error of the art holds the Minyae transfixed—yet according to W.'s interpretation, the Minyae have just averted their gaze! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1567 |
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