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  • noun An inhabitant or a resident of Thesprotia in western Epirus, Greece.

Etymologies

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From Thesprotia +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • He sent me off first, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, but he showed me all treasure

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Thesprotian ship, and has refuge at my station, so I will put him into your hands.

    The Odyssey 1900

  • Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.

    The Odyssey 1900

  • We see by this poem that Odysseus was represented as the mythical ancestor of the Thesprotian kings, just as Neoptolemus was of the

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • Of Zeus, Thesprotian styled, and that strange thing

    Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880

  • Thesprotian ship, and has taken refuge at my station, so I will put him into your hands.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Nine days did I drift but in the darkness of the tenth night a great wave bore me on to the Thesprotian coast.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • He sent me off first, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, but he showed me all the treasure Ulysses had got together, and he had enough lying in the house of king Pheidon to keep his family for ten generations; but the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove's mind from the high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

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