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Halicarnassian

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/ ˌhælɪkɑːˈnæsɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Not three ships’ lengths behind the Halicarnassian raced the ship of the son of Miltiades.

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

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.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

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 Arthur Hugh Clough

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 David Masson

Concerning the Antheadæ as priests of Poseidon see an Halicarnassian inscription in Corp.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

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