Sicyon
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Sicyonian adjective
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Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Thebans also flattered Demetrius, as Polemo relates in the treatise on the Ornamented Portico at Sicyon; and they, too, erected a temple to Lamia Venus.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
It opens with the painters of the Asiatic School, Zeuxis and Parrhasius and Protogenes, with their contemporaries Nicias and Apollodorus of Athens, Timanthes of Sicyon or Cythnus, and Euphranor of Corinth.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
In 369 he forced the Isthmus lines and secured Sicyon for Thebes, but gained no considerable successes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
The vicinity of Corinth had undoubtedly a great influence on Sicyon; yet that city, though it had a navy, was nevertheless without any considerable foreign trade or colonies.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
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