Colophonian

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[kol-uh-foh-nee-uhn] / ˌkɒl əˈfoʊ ni ən /

noun

1. a native of Colophon.

2. the, Antimachus.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Colophon.

Etymology

Origin of Colophonian

< Latin colophōni ( us ) (< Greek; see colophony) + -an

Example Sentences

A few errors that must have proceeded from Bracciolini about the Colophonian Oracle of Apollo Clarius, the Household Gods of the Germans, Gotarzes, Bardanes and, above all, Nineveh.—IV.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

The forts by which Ephesus protected itself against Colophonian invasion are still to be seen on the hills north of the Caystrus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

But Nicander the Colophonian, in the second part of his Dictionary, says that the lettuce is called βρένθις by the Cyprians.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Strange to say, even this pretension of the Colophonian prophetess is not without something analogous among the alleged phenomena of mesmerism.

From The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various