Megara
noun
a city in ancient Greece: the chief city of Megaris.
Megarian
-
a word derived from
Megara.
Example Sentences
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“Instead Pericles,” the Athenian leader, philosopher and orator, “convinced himself that he couldn’t concede a molehill — the Megarian decree — without a mountainous loss of credibility.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2018
The Megarians marched out from the city to repel the latter, and during the heat of the engagement Solon, with his Megarian ship and Athenian crew, sailed directly to the city.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
His work represents one great aspect of Socratic philosophy, and should be compared with the Cyrenaic and Megarian doctrines.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Nothing, then, could have been more natural than his selection of the old Megarian city for his new capital.
From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman
The ἀφάβρωμα was an old-fashioned gown of the Megarian women, Plutarch Qu.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
