Cnidus

American  

[nahy-duhs] / ˈnaɪ dəs /

noun

1. an ancient city in SW Asia Minor, in Caria: the Athenians defeated the Spartans in a naval battle near here 394 b.c.

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Cnidus British  

/ ˈknaɪ-, ˈnaɪdəs /

noun

1. an ancient Greek city in SW Asia Minor: famous for its school of medicine

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Other Word Forms

• Cnidean
  adjective

Example Sentences

Mechanics Sirs: Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus.

From Time Magazine Archive

She discovered the head in London's British Museum among fragments brought back from Cnidus by the English archaeologist Sir Charles Newton more than a century ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eudoxus of Cnidus, the contemporary of Plato, placed him still higher; he thought that Zoroaster lived 6000 years before the death of Plato.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

The earliest medical school of which we have definite information is that of Cnidus, a Lacedaemonian colony in Asiatic Doris.

From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.

Lucian reports differently, and more probably, thus, Sostratus of Cnidus, the son of Dexiphanes, to the Gods the Saviors, for the safety of Mariners.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub