单词 | pylian |
释义 | Pyliann.adj. A. n. A native or inhabitant of the Homeric town of Pylos in the southern Peloponnese, or of the territory ruled by Nestor or his dynasty.Pylos, traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Nestor and the name of his dynasty, is usually identified with Messenian Pylos at the northern end of Navarino Bay. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > ancient Greeks and neighbours > [noun] > native or inhabitant of states, regions, or cities Thebienc1374 Spartiatec1384 myrmidonc1425 Spartanc1425 Phocianc1487 Argive?1532 Locrian1536 Locrensian1542 Achaean1550 Mantinean1550 Mytilenean1550 Tegeate1584 Pylian1585 Epidaurian?1589 Thessalian1608 Olympian1609 Sicyonian1642 Samothracian1653 Dorian1662 Attic1699 Tegean1709 1585 A. Golding tr. P. Mela Worke of Cosmographer iii. 48 The Messemans and Pylians [L. Pylii], inhabite the Landes, and Pyle it selfe standeth neere the Sea, and so doo Cyllene and Callipolis. ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads ii. 28 (note) The Pylians and their townes. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses iii. 32 When the Pylians saw These strangers come: in thrust did all men draw About their entrie. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. Observ. 159 This was a very solemn sacrifice of the Pylians. 1799 E. King Munimenta Antiqua I. 208 There were nine Stations,..at every one of which stations a party of five hundred deputed Pylians were assembled. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xviii. 16 The Pylians, together with the great heroic family of Nêleus and his son Nestôr, who preside over them, give place to the Dorian establishment of Messênia. 1898 Classical Rev. 12 345 Metapontum..was built either by the Achaeans of North Peloponese or by the Pylians. 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’. 1962 G. S. Kirk Songs Homer vi. 130 King Codrus himself was a Pylian. 2001 I. J. F. De Jong Narratological Comm. on Odyssey iii. 69 Athena's prolonged incognito stay amongst the Pylians creates much delightful ambiguity. B. adj. Of or relating to Pylos or its inhabitants. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Greece > ancient cities Thebanc1374 Pylian1590 Argive1598 Mantinean1598 Mytilenean1724 Tegean1767 Mycenaean1842 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. 48 Nor that sage Pylian syre, which did survive Three ages, such as mortall men contrive. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses iii. 32 Soone they reacht the Pylian throngs and seates [Gk. Πυλίων ἀνδρῶν ἄγυρίν τε καὶ ἕδρας], Where Nestor with his sonnes sate. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 206 Next to the Raven's Age, the Pylian King [L. rex Pylius] Was longest liv'd of any two-leg'd thing. 1727 W. Broome Poems 102 Thus groans the thoughtful King, at length resolves To seek the Pylian Sage, in wise Debate To ripen high Designs. 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 140 Why did your will the Pylian chief decree Three centuries unspectacled to see. 1835 W. H. Drummond Pleasures of Benevolence ii. 49 What tho' ye speak With eloquence more sweet than Pylian king's. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 119 He found the smooth of speech Nestor, the Pylian orator. 1934 A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. I. 403 The Greek inhabitants of..the ci-devant Pylian domain. 1965 Language 41 315 Scribes who use different orthographies may have come from different localities within the Pylian territory. 1993 R. Castleden Minoans (BNC) 115 A Pylian warship of the twelfth century BC is shown on a vase painting to have high ‘castles’ at each end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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