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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

Nothing, then, could have been more natural than his selection of the old Megarian city for his new capital.

From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick

Byzantium likewise, a Megarian colony, had a temple of Apollo on the promontory of Metopon, according to Dionysius de Bosp.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried

For relation of Cynicism to contemporary thought, compare Cyrenaics, Megarian School.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

It is probably not an accident that Dieuchidas, who attributed so much to Peisistratus, was a Megarian.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various