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  • noun Plural form of Epirote.

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Examples

  • But north of the gulf the first inhabitants are Greeks, called Epirotes, as far as the city of

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

  • Mr. Lamb (now Sir Harry) told me that at Corfu he told Zographos to his face that most of his "Epirotes" were Cretans, and that the mere fact that a Greek ex-minister of Foreign Affairs was running this

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • ‘They can’t get him in his own land, for he has a bodyguard of Epirotes that would skin their grandmothers.

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

  • But the Italiote League broke up, and when Alexander was killed in battle (330) the Epirotes left Italy.

    h. The Macedonian Empire 2001

  • Two days before the wedding, a flustered maid announced to Eurydike in her inner room — built for the chief wife of old Kroisos — that the Queen of the Epirotes had come to visit her.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • The Epirotes who had followed her to the border had mutinied when ordered to fight in Macedon, and gone home.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • The Epirotes made alliance with him; he sent an adviser to direct their King, the young son of Kleopatra.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • Accordingly, I don't venture to trust either Achæans or Epirotes with a letter somewhat more outspoken than usual.

    The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Epirote Provisional Government, and now Deputy for Attica, who, amid profound attention and great enthusiasm, recounted the enormous sacrifices of blood and treasure by the Epirotes for their freedom, and declared that the liberation of Epirus must this time be final.

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • Epirotes, a people east of the Ionian Gulf, adjoining Precalis, V. xv.

    Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. Procopius

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