Dardan
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Dardan
First recorded in 1600–10
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Indeed the learning is modestly withdrawn from the later Editions, and we are quietly instructed to read, Dardan, and Thymbria, Ilia, Scæa, Troian, And Antenorides.
From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by David Nichol Smith
She spake; sad Anna to the Dardan bears Her piteous plea.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
One gift meseems thou shouldest add, most gracious king and lord, Unto the many gifts thou bid'st bear to the Dardan folk, Nor bow thyself to violence, nor lie beneath its yoke.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by William Morris
Yea, twice hath the Sire Uplifted his hand and downcast it On the wall of the Dardan, downcast it As a sword and as fire.
From The Trojan Women of Euripedes by Euripedes
“Sacked, but not captive,—burned, yet not consumed; Nor on the Dardan plains to moulder doomed.”
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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