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  • The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring

    Satyricon 2007

  • The fat Maeonian merchant saw them pass three days ago.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • Open thy Maeonian and thy Mantuan coffers, with whatever else includes thy philosophic, thy poetic, and thy historical treasures, whether with Greek or Roman characters thou hast chosen to inscribe the ponderous chests: give me a while that key to all thy treasures, which to thy Warburton thou hast entrusted.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Dolon tells all — the location of the Carians and Paeonians and Leleges and Cauconians, the sleeping areas of the crack Pelesgians and the stolid, faithful Lycians and the cock-strutting Mysians, the whereabouts of the camp of the famed Phrygian horsemen and the Maeonian charioteers — he tells everything and begs for his life.

    Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981

  • Maeonian king, and sent to Troy in forbidden weapons, lightly armed with sheathless sword and white unemblazoned shield.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring

    The Satyricon — Volume 01: Introduction 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • The years of young manhood, and at the Maeonian spring

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • There was Plotius, and there was Varius, bird of Maeonian song, whom he ranks with the singer of the _Aeneid_ himself as the most luminously pure of souls on earth.

    Horace and His Influence Grant Showerman

  • Finally, on the third day, in an unseen passage set from the Georgics he translated _tonsisque ferunt mantelia villis_ by _having pulled down the villas (i.e. literally shaved) they carry off the mantelpieces_ which he followed up with translating _Maeonii carchesia Bacchi_ as the _lees of Maeonian wine (i.e. literally carcases of Maeonian Bacchus) _.

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • There was Plotius, and there was Varius, bird of Maeonian song, whom he ranks with the singer of the Aeneid himself as the most luminously pure of souls on earth.

    Horace and His Influence Showerman, Grant, 1870-1935 1922

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