单词 | pisistratid |
释义 | Pisistratidn.adj. Ancient Greek History. A. n. In plural. The family or supporters of the Athenian tyrant Pisistratus; spec. his sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [noun] > other ancient Pisistratids1606 wanax1956 1606 R. Knolles tr. J. Bodin Six Bks. Common-weale iv. ii. 463 The Athenians shooke off the tyrannicall yoke of the Pisistratides [Fr. Pisistratides]. 1665 T. Stanley tr. Ælian Various Hist. v. xiii. 128 They [sc. the Athenians] experimented Tyranny under the Pisistratidæ. 1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. II. v. 57 The Corinthians would be the first of all People to regret the Pisistratides. 1776 W. Ellis tr. Aristotle Treat. Govt. v. xi. 295 The Pyramids of Egypt,..and the Temple of Jupiter Olympus, built by the Pysistratidæ, and the Works of Polycrates at Samos..all these produced one end, the keeping the People poor. 1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) I. xii. 561 He married Agaristë, niece of Cleisthenes, chief of the Alcmæonid family, and leader of the party that expelled the Peisistratids. 1848 Eton School Mag. 3 114 It thus appears how irretrievably the government of the Pisistratids had injured the Athenian character. 1922 P. N. Ure Origin of Tyranny ii. 33 The Philaidae, of whose rivalry with the Peisistratidae there will be occasion to speak later. 1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 319 From all indications, the Peisistratids amassed considerable amounts of gold and silver, then returned to Eretria. B. adj. Of, denoting, or relating to Pisistratus, his supporters, or his family, esp. his sons. Also: of or relating to the revision of Homeric poems attributed to Pisistratus. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > other independent rulers > [adjective] > relating to specific ancient Greek Pisistratid1847 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > study of poetry > [adjective] > specific theories of Homeric poems Wolfian1824 Pisistratean1846 Pisistratid1968 1847 Southern Q. Rev. Oct. 530 The wonderful effect of the establishment of her [sc. Athens'] free constitution, after the expulsion of the Peisistratid tyrants. 1867 C. A. Bloss Anc. Hist. iv. 123 The people of Sparta..sent out Cleomenes, their king, with a band of men to aid in overthrowing the Pisistratid party. 1927 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 47 285 Peloponnesian history is introduced as an adjunct to the Pisistratid rule in Athens. 1965 A. R. Burn Traveller's Hist. Greece vii. 114 Hipparchos, the chief Peisistratid patron of poets and artists, was stabbed to death. 1968 V. Ehrenberg From Solon to Socrates iv. 82 The story of a ‘Peisistratid redaction’ of the two epics can hardly be true. 1996 Daily Tel. 31 Dec. 16/6 The song of Harmodios and Aristogeiton, two public school-type chaps who tried to assassinate the Peisistratid tyrants, became a kind of Athenian national anthem. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1606 |
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