| 单词 | pythic games |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPythic games 1. Greek History. = Pythian adj. Frequently in Pythic games. 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 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [adjective] > relating to an oracle > relating to the priestess of Apollo Pythian1570 Pythic1746 1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Pythick or Pythian games [Fr. ieux Pythiques], were celebrated to the honour of Apollo Pythius, neere the city Delphos, with great solemnity. 1619 D. Lindsay Pastors Resol. iii. 119 Such amongst the Heathen, were the Olympick, Pythick, and Isthmick games, wherein the prayses and honour of their gods were remembred and celebrated. 1699 W. King Dialogues of Dead 16 What Racing, what Running, what Wrestling, what Boxing at the Olympiads, the Pythick and Nemean Games, when the Oak, the Pine and Parsly garlands remain'd the Reward of their Victories. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 559 A Youth..Who sings the Pythic Song [L. qui Pythia cantat]. 1749 G. West Diss. on Olympick Games in tr. Pindar Odes p. civ We may conclude, the signal for starting was given by the sound of a trumpet in the Olympick Chariot-Races, from Sophocles having informed us that this was the signal given in the Pythick Hippodrome. a1777 F. Fawkes tr. Apollonius Rhodius Argonautics (1780) iv. 298 Those mystic truths the Pythic shrine conceal'd. 1860 E. Falkener Dædalus, Anc. Art ii. 61 Conquerors in the Olympic and Pythic games. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 47 On fields where palsying Pythic laurels grow. 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. II. v. 2 Brennus spoils the great fane of the Pythic god. 1967 Yale French Stud. No. 38. 78 During the stay of Calasiris at Delphi, the Pythic games take place. 1998 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 102 557/2 The Olympic and Pythic victor Aurelius Achilles. < as lemmas |
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