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  • adjective Pertaining to Aonia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there.

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  • So they went and made no vain journey; but when they came, lordly Aeetes gave them for the contest the fell teeth of the Aonian dragon which Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew — the warder of the spring of Ares.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Agenor's son, Cadmus, sowed them on the Aonian plains and founded an earthborn people of all who were left from the spear when Ares did the reaping; and the teeth Aeetes then readily gave to be borne to the ship, for he deemed not that Jason would bring the contest to an end, even though he should cast the yoke upon the oxen.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • So they went and made no vain journey; but when they came, lordly Aeetes gave them for the contest the fell teeth of the Aonian dragon which Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew the -- warder of the spring of

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • And Agenor's son, Cadmus, sowed them on the Aonian plains and founded an earthborn people of all who were left from the spear when Ares did the reaping; and the teeth Aeetes then readily gave to be borne to the ship, for he deemed not that Jason would bring the contest to an end, even though he should cast the yoke upon the oxen.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Aeetes gave them for the contest the fell teeth of the Aonian dragon which Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew -- the warder of the spring of Ares.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Of Tiresias, the blind old man, the fam’d Aonian seer;

    Theocritus 1895

  • Full, as his notebooks of the period attest, of magnificent aspiration for “flights above the Aonian mount,” he yet quietly sat down to educate his nephews, and lament his friend.

    Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

  • 'Thou then, my friend, who seest the dang'rous strife In which some demon bids me plunge my life, To the Aonian fount direct my feet, Say where the Nine thy lonely musings meet?

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • Thebes, fair nurse of youth, ploughing the deep soil of the Aonian plain, while I in Tiryns, rocky city of Hera, am ever thus wounded at heart with many sorrows, nor is any respite to me from tears.

    Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878

  • But, O God! for leisure enough to breathe, although at rarest intervals, the air of the Aonian mount!

    The Poems of Henry Timrod. 1872

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