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  • noun Plural form of Rhodian.

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Examples

  • Just as they surrendered to the Hittites, the Cretans, the Persians, the Greeks, the Rhodians, and later to Brutus and Cassius, to Antony and Octavius, to Octavius on his own, and apparently to any tinpot general with a rusty sword and a pair of sandals.

    Necropolis Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • Rhodians against a former edict; and I abound with other like examples, which to set here would be superfluous.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • The Rhodians and Cytherians were both Dorians; the Cytherians, although Lacedaemonian colonists, bore arms in the Athenian cause against the Lacedaemonians who came with Gylippus; and the Rhodians, though by descent Argive, were compelled to fight against the Syracusans, who were Dorians, and against the Geloans, who were actually their own colony,59 and were taking part with Syracuse.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Peloponnesians, having collected thirty-two talents50 from the Rhodians, drew up their ships, and did nothing for eleven weeks.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • For the Rhodians could reach further than the Persian slingers, or, indeed, than most of the bowmen.

    Anabasis 2007

  • Peloponnesian fleet drawn up out of their reach, but they landed, and defeated the Rhodians who came out to meet them.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Rhodians against a former edict; and I abound with other like examples, which to set here would be superfluous.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • Cretans, who had once joined with the Rhodians in the foundation of

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • It was as if the Colossus meant more to the Egyptians than it did to the Rhodians.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

  • The Rhodians always suspected that it was taken away on an Egyptian freighter-barge that had left Rhodes earlier that week.

    Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006

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