Milesian

And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same time.

Don Quixote 2002

And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same time.

Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same time.

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 14 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same time.

The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

This is one of the three tragic stories of the Irish, which are: (1) The death of the children of Touran (regarding Tuatha de Danans); (2) the death of the children of Lear or Lir, turned into swans by Aoife; (3) the death of the children of Usnach (a "Milesian" story).

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Here, all three trumpeters were playing with tight Milesian harmon mutes—and even still, you'd have no problem telling one from the others with your eyes closed.

Teeming Trumpets, Jam Sessions Will Friedwald 2011

It is considered the oldest fragment of Western thinking - thus writes Heidegger in his famous essay on the even more famous sentence of the ancient Milesian philosopher Anaximander ca.

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Although he was influenced in a number of ways by the thought and language of his predecessors, including the epic poets Homer and Hesiod, the poet and philosopher Xenophanes, the historian and antiquarian Hecataeus, the religious guru Pythagoras, the sage Bias of Priene, the poet Archilochus, and the Milesian philosophers, he criticized most of them either explicitly or implicitly, and struck out on his own path.

Doctor, My Eyes 2009

His views can be seen to embody structural criticisms of Milesian principles, but even in correcting the Milesians he built on their foundations.

Doctor, My Eyes 2009

It is considered the oldest fragment of Western thinking - thus writes Heidegger in his famous essay on the even more famous sentence of the ancient Milesian philosopher Anaximander ca.

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