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- noun Plural form of
Nicopolitan .
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Examples
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Many of those living round about voluntarily joined the settlement and later generations of them are in existence even now, being called Nicopolitans
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Athenians only, or of Lacedaemonians or of Nicopolitans; next he must be whipped also if he has entered into the contests rashly: and before being whipped, he must suffer thirst and heat, and swallow much dust.
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Nicopolitans have bravely and stoutly resisted the vicar's first assault; for he tried to persuade them to receive Eustathius, and to accept their bishop on his appointment.
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When the Nicopolitans, as you yourself are partly aware, were asking for some proof of faith, I determined to have recourse to the written document.
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[3054] I thought that I should fulfil two objects at once; I expected both to persuade the Nicopolitans not to think ill of the man, [3055] and to shut the mouths of my calumniators, because agreement in faith would exclude slander on both sides.
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The charge which they think the truest of all is, that I made that exposition of the faith for secret and dishonest reasons, not to do service to the Nicopolitans, but with the design of disingenously extracting a confession from them.
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Thus the Nicopolitans, too, frequently cry out, "By the genius of Cæsar we are free!"
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece Various 1887
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Lacedemonians, and Nicopolitans, and that Pergamus which is in Mysia, full of donations that Herod presented them withal?
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709
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