Meliboean

Here the Locrians of Narycos have set their city, and here Lyctian Idomeneus beset the Sallentine plains with soldiery; here is the town of the Meliboean captain, Philoctetes 'little Petelia fenced by her wall.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

This Convention is not four days old, and the melodious Meliboean stanzas that shook down Royalty are still fresh in our ear, when there bursts out a new diapason, -- unhappily, of Discord, this time.

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

Livelier than Meliboean, or the grain Of Sarra, worn by kings and heroes old In time of truce 5 Iris had dipt the woof;

The Works of the English Poets 1779

For their captains he adds special honours; to the winner a scarf wrought with gold, encircled by a double border of deep Meliboean purple; woven in it is the kingly boy on leafy Ida, chasing swift stags with javelin and racing feet, keen and as one panting; him Jove's swooping armour-bearer hath caught up from Ida in his talons; his aged guardians stretch their hands vainly upwards, and the barking of hounds rings fierce into the air.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Couthon of the Mountain rises; and in rapid Meliboean stanzas, only a few lines each, they propose motions not a few: That the corner-stone of our new Constitution is Sovereignty of the People; that our Constitution shall be accepted by the People or be null; further that the People ought to be avenged, and have right Judges; that the Imposts must continue till new order; that Landed and other Property be sacred forever; finally that 'Royalty from this day is abolished in

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838