Colophonian

Colophonian port, which was near the city of Toronè; there learning from deserters that Brasidas was not in Toronè, and that the garrison was too weak to resist, he marched with his army against the town, and sent ten ships to sail round into the harbour.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Colophonian, which state that every species of animal supplies metaphor to aid the imagination in its ideas of the deity — the wings of the bird, the speed of the horse, and the strength of the lion.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Magistrates, and Nicander the Colophonian have taught us.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Now the Aiolians lost Smyrna in the following manner: — certain men of Colophon, who had been worsted in party strife and had been driven from their native city, were received there for refuge: and after this the Colophonian exiles watched for a time when the men of Smyrna were celebrating a festival to Dionysos outside the walls, and then they closed the gates against them and got possession of the city.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Cardian, and Artemius, the Colophonian, asked them if they were not of opinion that the Greeks, in comparison with the Macedonians, behaved themselves like so many demi-gods among wild beasts.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

The water of the lake there is usually called wine, and it may be that on minds and bodies "which have attained to the needful congruity," it has operated as wonderful effects as the Colophonian fount itself.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Colophonian oracle, they were the spectators, not the prophetess, who had need thus to be put under the influence of the mesmeric _glamour_.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Strange to say, even this pretension of the Colophonian prophetess is not without something analogous among the alleged phenomena of mesmerism.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

In this odd title he seems to refer to elegies of the Colophonian poet, who was famous in antiquity for the plaintive stress which he laid on the necessity of extracting from life all it had to offer, since there was nothing beyond mortal love, which was the life of life.

Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888

Now the Aiolians lost Smyrna in the following manner: -- certain men of Colophon, who had been worsted in party strife and had been driven from their native city, were received there for refuge: and after this the Colophonian exiles watched for a time when the men of Smyrna were celebrating a festival to Dionysos outside the walls, and then they closed the gates against them and got possession of the city.

The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883