Sardis
noun
an ancient city in W Asia Minor: the capital of ancient Lydia.
Sardian
-
a word derived from
Sardis.
Example Sentences
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Duillius next and Catulus were seen, Whose daring navies plough'd the billowy green That laves Pelorus and the Sardian shore, And dyed the rolling waves with Punic gore.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
Thus Varro categorizes the Sibyls, and besides these we hear of a Hebrew, a Chaldaean, a Babylonian, an Egyptian, a Sardian Sibyl, and some others.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
