Colophonian
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Origin of Colophonian
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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
But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.
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
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
It is easily peel'd, and the Eubœans Call it a nut, but some people have call'd it an acorn, says Nicander the Colophonian, in his Georgics.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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