Halicarnassian
Britishadjective
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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
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
If they display too nice an arrangement, the Halicarnassian shall vindicate me.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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.
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
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