Definitions

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  • adjective architecture An architectural term for a large hall, which faced the north, with a prospect towards the gardens; the windows of this hall opened down to the ground, so that the green verdure could be seen by those lying on the couches.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the people and place of Cyzicus (an ancient classical city).

Etymologies

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Derived from Latin (architecture) cyzicenus by Vitruvius; from the city of Cyzicus.

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Examples

  • While the Chians and Tissaphernes were pursuing their common object, Calligitus the son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras the son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both exiles from their own country, who were residing at the court of Pharnabazus the son of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • In the same winter the twenty-seven ships equipped by the Spartans for Pharnabazus through the agency of the Megarian Calligeitus, and the Cyzicene Timagoras, put out from the Peloponnesus and sailed for Ionia about the time of the solstice, under the command of Antisthenes, a Spartiate.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • In the same winter the twenty-seven ships equipped by the Spartans for Pharnabazus through the agency of the Megarian Calligeitus, and the Cyzicene Timagoras, put out from the Peloponnesus and sailed for Ionia about the time of the solstice, under the command of Antisthenes, a Spartiate.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • And he left for his wife twenty minae and thirty Cyzicene staters.

    The Orations of Lysias 440? BC-380 BC Lysias

  • While the Chians and Tissaphernes thus joined to effect the same object, about the same time Calligeitus, son of Laophon, a Megarian, and Timagoras, son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country and living at the court of Pharnabazus, son of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

  • By comparing the present remains with the precepts of Vitruvius, the several parts of the building, the baths, bed-chamber, the atrium, the basilica, and the Cyzicene, Corinthian, and Egyptian halls have been described with some degree of precision, or at least of probability.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Cyzicene, Corinthian, and Egyptian halls have been described with some degree of precision, or at least of probability.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • Cyzicene, Corinthian, and Egyptian halls have been described with some degree of precision, or at least of probability.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • ... than in watching a damned lieutenant with three plumes and military cloak of crimson, very livid indeed; he calls it the real Sardian purple, but if he ever has to fight in this cloak he'll dye it another colour, the real Cyzicene yellow, he the first to run away, shaking his plumes like a buff hippalectryon, and I am left to do the real work.

    Peace 2000

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