Ogygian
Britishadjective
Etymology
Origin of Ogygian
C19: from Greek ōgugios relating to Ogyges, the most ancient king of Greece, mythical ruler of Boeotia or Attica
Example Sentences
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Thankfully, Michael Blowen has developed Old Friends into a world-class organization for at risk race horses providing them a dignified retirement such as bringing home Ogygian from Japan in 2005.
From New York Times • May 25, 2010
Ogygian, ō-jij′i-an, adj. pertaining to the mythical Attic king Ogўges, prehistoric, primeval.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
More sad and more despairing than Ulysses on the Ogygian shore, he too wasted away with home-sickness.
From Cord and Creese by De Mille, James
Not mine Ogygian secrets to impart; But this they said where vague Meander shone, That only he who hath the poet's heart May hear the music of the dying swan.
From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.
Princes, and ye whose delights remain, To the one good gift of the gods hold sure, Lest ye too mourn, in vain, in vain, Your green Ogygian Isle secure!
From In Divers Tones by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
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