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Definition of Arcadians
1. arcadian [n] - See also: arcadian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcadians
Literary usage of Arcadians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"Both the Arcadians, and policy o*" the opposition party in the ... in the hands
of men who would join Sparta on the complaint of the Arcadians and others. ..."
2. Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age by William Ewart Gladstone (1858)
"The Arcadians in Homer. Like the Pelasgians, the Arcadians are, as we have seen,
happy in never being mentioned without Homer's commendation. ..."
3. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"The Arcadians, feeling all the expected uneasiness at the establishment of a
hostile post within their country, withdrew their troops from Eleia ; and, ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"... even the authors who preferred the title of the Argive Pelasgians, did not
deny that the Arcadians were, at least, younger members of the same family. ..."
5. A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges by Charles Anthon (1850)
"The Arcadians, like the people of Switzerland at the present day, ... I.
ACCORDING to their own account, the Arcadians had occupied the central parts of the ..."
6. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1822)
"Interference of the Arcadians in the Presidency of the Olympian Festival; Battle
of Olympia. and the Lacedaemonian cause in Greece, seemed now reviving from ..."
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