Idaean
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Idaean
1580–90; < Latin Īdae ( us ) (< Greek Īdaîos Idaean) + -an
Example Sentences
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Foremost in the collection is the reclining Idaean Hercules.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not half so swift the sailing falcon flies, That drives a turtle through the liquid skies, As Phoebus, shooting from the Idaean brow, Glides down the mountain to the plain below.
From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander
Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum And native sulphur and Idaean pitch, Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black.
From The Georgics by Virgil
The Idaean Mother brought to Rome from Phrygia; received by Publius Scipio Nasica, judged by the senate the best man in the state.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
It ran thus: "Whensoever a foreign enemy should bring war into the land of Italy, he may be driven out of Italy and conquered, if the Idaean Mother should be brought from Pessinus to Rome."
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
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