Thasos
noun
a Greek island in the N Aegean. About 170 sq. mi. (440 sq. km).
Thasian
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a word derived from
Thasos.
Example Sentences
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Twenty thousand sprang up together as Scolus the Thasian leaped.
From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis
Panaenus, brother of Pheidias, worked with Polygnotus, and many of the groupings found in the sculptures of the Parthenon remind us of those usual with the Thasian master.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
And Archestratus says— The Carian and the Thasian polypi Are far the best; Corcyra too can breed Fish of large size and very numerous.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
Professor Benndorf, who has published these sculptures in an admirable volume, is disposed to see in them the influence of the Thasian painter Polygnotus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
And Alexis says— In Thasian feasts his friends he meets, And νωγαλίζει, sweatmeats eats.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
