| 单词 |
Sophoclean |
| 释义 |
Sophoclean, a.|sɒfəˈkliːən| [f. L. Sophoclē-us, ad. Gr. σοϕόκλειος, f. σοϕοκλῆς, -κλέης (see def.). Cf. F. Sophocléen.] Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, Sophocles, the Athenian tragic poet, or his works, style, etc.
1649Quarles Virgin Widow iii. Wks. (Grosart) III. 303/2 Then shall the learned Bayes..Immortalize the Sophoclean Stage. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. ii. i. 220 How æschylus and Thespis form'd the Stage, And what improv'd the Sophoclean Page. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 182 But this is to measure him by a Sophoclean scale. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 46 Rather an Ovidian than a Sophoclean grace of bearing and speech. |

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