Acarnania
noun
a coastal region of the western central part of ancient Greece: now part of the province of Aetolia and Acarnania in modern Greece.
Acarnanian
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a word derived from
Acarnania.
Example Sentences
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Here stood Diores, famous for his speed, A prince of Priam's lineage; Salius there, And Patron, this of Acarnanian seed, 352 That of Arcadian birth and Tegeæan breed.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
An Acarnanian physician, named Philip, who accompanied him, prescribed a remedy; but at the same time Alexander received a letter informing him that Philip had been bribed by Darius, the Persian king, to poison him.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
But he who took upon him the actual place and style of his "pedagogue," was Lysimachus the Acarnanian.
From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White
In the ensuing winter the Acarnanian Evarchus, wishing to return to Astacus, persuaded the Corinthians to sail over with forty ships and fifteen hundred heavy infantry and restore him; himself also hiring some mercenaries.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
"I will answer for it," the Acarnanian replied.
From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. Fuller
