Colophonian

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[kol-uh-foh-nee-uhn] / ˌkɒl əˈfoʊ ni ən /

noun

1. a native of Colophon.

2. the, Antimachus.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Colophon.

Etymology

Origin of Colophonian

< Latin colophōni ( us ) (< Greek; see colophony) + -an

Example Sentences

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Colophonian

A few errors that must have proceeded from Bracciolini about the Colophonian Oracle of Apollo Clarius, the Household Gods of the Germans, Gotarzes, Bardanes and, above all, Nineveh.—IV.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

Now the captain of the Thebans at Thermopylae was not Leontiades, but Anaxander, as both Aristophanes, out of the Commentaries of the Magistrates, and Nicander the Colophonian have taught us.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

But Nicander the Colophonian, in his essay on Dialects, says that the carcharias is also called the lamias and the squill.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

But Nicander the Colophonian, in the second part of his Dictionary, says that the lettuce is called βρένθις by the Cyprians.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

A few errors that must have proceeded from Bracciolini  about the Colophonian Oracle of Apollo Clarius, the  Household Gods of the Germans, Gotarzes, Bardanes and,  above all, Nineveh.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson