Dodona
noun
an ancient town in NW Greece, in Epirus: the site of a famous oracle of Zeus.
Dodonian
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a word derived from
Dodona.
Example Sentences
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The oracular powers of the Dodonian oaks are frequently alluded to, not only by the Greek and Latin poets, but by those of modern times.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
Dione, a Greek goddess of the earlier mythology; figures as the wife of the Dodonian Zeus; drops into subordinate place after his nuptials with Hera.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
They are curiously oracular, like the whisperings of those fabled Dodonian oaks of his fatherland; they heave with a darkly-virile mysticism.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
After this the Dodonian oracles were always delivered to the Bœotians by men.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
If further she should go, will she not see That other Argos, the Dodonian land?
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
