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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The Greeks called it the Greek or Thasian nut, and the Romans believed that by eating half a dozen of them, they were secured against drunkenness, however deeply they might imbibe.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Yes, like enough, if you poured him out Thasian wine.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes
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
Homer, for example, makes men better than they are; Cleophon as they are; Hegemon the Thasian, the inventor of parodies, and Nicochares, the author of the Deiliad, worse than they are.
From The Poetics of Aristotle by S. H. (Samuel Henry) Butcher
And they called pickle, Thasian brine; as also the same poet says in his Wasps,— For before that it twice drank in the brine.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
