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- adjective
Pelasgian
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Examples
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Fiesole must be a very ancient town, for there is a ruined amphitheatre there, and the remains of walls so old that they are called Pelasgic in their origin; which is, I take it, sufficiently vague.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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They were Pelasgic, that is, they belonged to that unknown ancient people from whom both the Greek and the Latin nations are thought to have come.
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Dorian element gave the nation its strength and vital force, the Pelasgic was the source of its intellectual activity and success in literature and art.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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On the next page he adds, however, that Thucydides could not have meant to describe as the ancient city simply the ground enclosed within the Pelasgic fortifications, or he would have mentioned these in the τεκμήρια.
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A Pelasgic wall extends as a boundary-wall below the Aesculapieum, then onward at about the same level until interrupted by the Odeum of Herodes Atticus.
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And they are worthy that you should revere them, who have chosen to have so great a country and the Pelasgic people as enemies instead of us, though seeing us to be beggared wanderers; but still they have not given us up, nor driven us from their land.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Of the Pelasgic and Etruscan town not a vestige remains; but the ruined foundations of Roman villas are still to be seen along the shore.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Pelasgic city, by the wine-press, we understand why the contest in the Lenaeum was called a contest κατ 'αγρούς.
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The Pelasgic races of the south traced their descent from Inachus, the river god and son of Oceanus.
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[Greek: xanthos] and remember, if you please, that he is in direct descent from Epaphos, the swarthy ancestor of the Pelasgic houses.
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