Cyllenian

American  

[si-lee-nee-uhn] / sɪˈli ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Mount Cyllene in Arcadia, Greece, or to the god Hermes, reputed to have been born there.

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Etymology

Origin of Cyllenian

1730–40; < Late Latin Cyllēni ( us ) (< Greek Kyllḗnios, equivalent to Kyllḗn ( ē ) + -ios -ious ) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Cyllenian

As these words left his lips the Cyllenian, yet speaking, quitted mortal sight and vanished into thin air away out of his eyes.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So spake Cyllenian Argus-bane, and winked, with his wrapping on his arm: he p. 155did not cast it down. 

From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang

This fearing, mark the months and Signs of heaven, Whither retires him Saturn's icy star, And through what heavenly cycles wandereth The glowing orb Cyllenian.

From The Georgics by Virgil

The Cyllenian accordingly lifted me up by the right ear, and yesterday evening deposited me in the Ceramicus.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler

Cyllenian ranges: Mount Cyllene, in southern Greece, the fabled birthplace of Hermes.

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart

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