| 单词 | nemean games |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNemean games 1. Greek History. Designating one of the national festivals of ancient Greece, held at Nemea in the second and fourth years of each Olympiad. Usually as Nemean games, Nemean festival. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > celebratory games > specific ancient Greek Nemean games1559 Panathenaea1578 Pythian games1579 Olympian Gamesa1586 Olympic Games1597 Isthmian games1603 Pythic games1603 Panathenaics1678 Nemean festival1844 society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > series of, as public spectacle > in ancient world > specific Olympiada1456 Nemean games1559 Panathenaea1578 Pythian games1579 Olympian Gamesa1586 Olympic Games1597 Isthmian games1603 Pythic games1603 Capitoline games1609 Olympics1621 Panathenaics1678 Nemean festival1844 1559 W. Bavand tr. J. Ferrarius Common Weale v. viii. f. 101v The Grecians also, as Strabo writeth, solempnelie kept the Nemeane games, in the honour of Hercules, whiche slue a wilde Lion in a chace of that name. 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals sig. Zzzzz5v/2 Feasts, games, faires..exhibited, before the generall assembly of a whole nation: such as were the Olympicke, Pythicke, Isthmicke, and Nemian games in Greece. 1610 J. Selden Duello iii. 7 The old Grecians had their Olympian games..celebrated euery forth yeare; their Pythian from Apollo..their Nemean dedicated to Archemorus. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 52 For Authors do affirm it came From Isthmian or Nemean game. 1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 398 The four great festivals, of the Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian Games. 1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 277 At the Nemean festival.., being a second time General, he exhibited his phalanx. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 704/2 We have eleven odes by Pindar in honour of victors in the Nemean Games. 1896 Oracle Encycl. IV. 284/2 The judges in the Nemean games were dressed in black robes. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 215/1 Adrastus..marched against the city of Thebes, and on his way is said to have founded the Nemean games. 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 440 The victory of Queen Berenice at the Nemean games. 2018 J. J. Bravo Excavations at Nemea IV iii. 133/1 The fusion of the symbolism of the Nemean Games (the celery wreath) with the iconography of Herakles and the Nemean lion on these coins symbolizes the ties between Kleonai and the Games. < as lemmas |
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