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

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Example Sentences

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Colophonian

Now the captain of the Thebans at Thermopylae was not Leontiades, but Anaxander, as both Aristophanes, out of the Commentaries of the Magistrates, and Nicander the Colophonian have taught us.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

In the Colophonian oracle, they were the spectators, not the prophetess, who had need thus to be put under the influence of the mesmeric glamour.

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

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

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.

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

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

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