Halicarnassian
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Canon Rawlinson, in his unhappy version, does not perceive that the Halicarnassian means the jackal and blunders about the hyena.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
These mendacious patriots found little difficulty in palming their false tale upon the simple Halicarnassian, thereby at once extending the antiquity of their empire and concealing its shame behind a halo of fictitious glory.
What is suitable for the Historian you will have learnt more correctly from the ancient authors, Polybius, the Halicarnassian, Diodorus, Cicero, Lucian, and many others, who have handed down certain stray precepts concerning that subject.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David
Not three ships’ lengths behind the Halicarnassian raced the ship of the son of Miltiades.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
Accordingly he first attempted and prepared to persuade the citizens privately, and studied an oration composed to this purpose by Cleon, the Halicarnassian.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh
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