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- noun A little
Greek , or one of smallesteem orpretensions .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A thorough soldier and yet the inaugurator of a peace policy, a 'Greekling' as his Roman subjects called him, and saturated with Hellenic ideas, and yet a lover of
Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers
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Cultivated and bookish, the Spanish-born "Greekling" (he wore a Greek beard) built great buildings that endure to this day, notably the Pantheon in Rome, which, what with the Venetians accidentally blowing up the Parthenon in Athens, so I was taught, is the only building from the classical era to survive with its roof intact.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2008
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Cultivated and bookish, the Spanish-born "Greekling" (he wore a Greek beard) built great buildings that endure to this day, notably the Pantheon in Rome, which, what with the Venetians accidentally blowing up the Parthenon in Athens, so I was taught, is the only building from the classical era to survive with its roof intact.
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"Well, Greekling, if you get a quiet word with Plato, just tell him this from the Roman cohort."
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
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Inconsistencies, too much subject that Gentleman to the Character given, by the _Roman_ Satirist, of an assuming sharp-set _Greekling_:
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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Greekling judge, at one time a Greek, and at another a Roman?
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Him and no one else," she answered curtly, and the Greekling slipped thankfully out as the curtains were drawn aside to admit a man, about thirty-five years old, whose face and bearing brought suddenly into the fretful room a consciousness of a larger world, a more difficult arena.
Roads from Rome 1901
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The Greekling -- as Juvenal has it -- in want of a dinner, would climb somehow to heaven itself, at the bidding of his Roman master.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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"starveling Greekling," there appeared the eulogistic picture of an
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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“starveling Greekling,” there appeared the eulogistic picture of an Aristeas, the improved Exodus of an Artapanus.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Bentwich, Norman 1910
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