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
Of more than twenty voices only three—Themistocles’s and those of the Æginetan and Megarian admirals—were in favour of abiding the onset.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
B. In three of them I've good Megarian groats.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
And Ulpian said,—I will stop eating if you will tell me by whom these Megarian, or Thessalian groats are spoken of.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
It was founded by a Megarian colony, which soon subjugated the native Mariandynians and extended its power over a considerable territory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
