| 单词 |
Thucydidean |
| 释义 |
Thucydidean, a.|ˌθjuːsɪdɪˈdiːən| Also † -æan, -ian. [f. L. Thūcȳdidēs (Gr. θουκυδίδης), name of a Greek historian of the fifth century b.c. + -ean; cf. Thūcȳdidēus adj. (Cicero).] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Thucydides or his work.
1752Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XLVII. 385 The European plagues are much more violent than the eastern; those being really the Thucydidian, which sweep all away. 1826K. H. Digby Morus 125 Having no character of solemn reserve or Thucydidean dignity of style to support. 1834― Mores Cath. v. vi. 183 The Thucydidæan expression. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 326/2 The best clue to Thucydidean bibliography is in Engelmann's Scriptores Graeci. 191119th Cent. Apr. 697 He even heightens the pathos of the Thucydidean original. 1945E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages iii. 130 It was not long before, in Thucydidean phrase, he had won his way to the mythical. 1977Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 128 The Hellenizing and specifically Thucydidean tradition of Sallust and Tacitus. |

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