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
They are about to receive the Idaean Mother, coming out of Phrygia from Pessinus!
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
They were said to have been instituted by the Idaean Heracles, to commemorate his victory over his four brothers in a foot-race.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
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
Euripides, then, takes the matter of the Homeric hymn into the region of a higher and swifter poetry, and connects it with the more stimulating imagery of the Idaean mother.
From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Pater, Walter
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