Dodona
noun
an ancient town in NW Greece, in Epirus: the site of a famous oracle of Zeus.
Dodonean
-
a word derived from
Dodona.
Example Sentences
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Did you get your greedy nature from some sable Dodonean ancestress?
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
In the gloomy recesses of its forests of oak was situated the renowned Dodonean oracle of Zeus.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
If there was only a Dodonean oak in them, I should imagine myself to be in possession of Epirus.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
