How To Use Thracian In A Sentence
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Status Offline The race is on to uncover the golden splendors of its Thracian past before sites are looted and developers move in.
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A soldier might know that it was the little weary men with their short swords, their heavy pikes over their shoulders, and their square shields slung upon their backs, who were the real terror of the enemies of the Empire, but to the eyes of the wondering Thracians it was this troop of glittering Apollos who bore Rome's victory upon their banners, and upheld the throne of the purple-togaed prince who rode before them.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
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He said that this proved that the temple was actually a burial site of a Thracian king, who was deified upon his death.
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That every puir fellow as has no gret brains in his head will be left to his superstition, an 'his ignorance to fulfil the lusts o' his flesh; while the few that are geniuses, or fancy themselves sae, are to ha 'the monopoly o' this private still o 'philosophy -- these carbonari, illuminati, vehmgericht, samothracian mysteries o' bottled moonshine. An 'when that comes to pass, I'll just gang back to my schule and my catechism, and begin again wi' 'who was born o' the Virgin Mary, suffered oonder
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Homer considered the Thracians a nation of horsemen; Thucydides respected their daggers; Romans feared their polearm.
The Spartacus War
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Also featured is a four-wheeled Thracian chariot.
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The race is on to uncover the golden splendors of its Thracian past before sites are looted and developers move in.
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Inside was information about early peoples in the area, including the Thracians, and examples of Bulgarian craftsmanship - carpets, clothes and traditional woodcarvings.
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According to a report in BalkanTravellers. com, the discovery was made by archaeologists Aleksadar Michev and Teodor Rokov, who were exploring a stone structure reminiscent of a 'dolmen' - a typical Thracian tomb from the Early Iron Age.
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Success in the Persian wars and the establishment of control over the Thracian mines brought further enrichment to the treasuries.
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The Rhodope Mountains were known to the ancient Thracians but to Bulgarians the mountains are famous for having sheltered and been the base for historic freedom fighters.
Pirin National Park, Bulgaria
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Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
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So is it with ‘Thrax’ a Thracian, and ‘Threx’ a gladiator; with ‘codex’ and ‘caudex’; ‘forfex’ and ‘forceps’;
English Past and Present
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When the Thracian slave Spartacus fights in the arena, vast crowns of blood fan suddenly from head wounds, arms are scythed off, a man bereft of legs is pitchforked in the back, and blood spots spatter the camera lens.
John Hannah: 'I play a devious, lying, cheating, ambitious mother******. It's great!'
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The Thracians who had inhabited these lands before the invasion of Slavs and Bulgars were also incorporated into the new state.
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From that day forward until Saint Paul visited in Roman times and founded the first Christian church in Europe on the site, the old Thracian town was known as Philippi.
Alexander the Great
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It is a remarkable reminder of the culture of the Getes, a Thracian people who were in contact with the Hellenistic and Hyperborean worlds, according to ancient geographers.
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Thirty-five Thracian tombs have so far been discovered in Bulgaria and all of them have pre-classical vaults (false vaults) made during the period fifth to the third centuries BCE.
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Jokes made by altering the letters of a word consist in meaning, not just what you say, but something that gives a twist to the word used; e.g. the remark of Theodorus about Nicon the harpist Thratt’ ei su (’you Thracian slavey’), where he pretends to mean Thratteis su (’you harpplayer’), and surprises us when we find he means something else.
Rhetoric
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Built over a Thracian settlement and a Byzantine fortress, Tsarevets turned into an unapproachable fortress.
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Thus the Greek phrase leuke hemera, or leukon himar (AEschylus, Pers. 305), is commonly derived from a custom ascribed to the Scythians or Thracians, of indicating each happy day which they spent with a white stone placed in an urn, each unhappy with a black.
Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
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In addition, Thurii had for centuries been a center of Orphic religion, a cult with Dionysiac overtones that offered a natural opening to the Thracian woman and her prophecies.
The Spartacus War
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And the wild oak-trees to this day, tokens of that magic strain, that grow at Zone on the Thracian shore, stand in ordered ranks close together, the same which under the charm of his lyre he led down from Pieria.
The Argonautica
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2. a Thracian king who fed his wild mares on human flesh and was himself fed to them by Hercules.
FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
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The monuments of the Thracian toreutics present the image of the king as a horseman.
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A significant number of the monuments of Thracian toreutics have been found at burial sites.
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Session) with an eye as fine and soft as the Thracian Rhodope's, or as threatening and commanding as that of Mars -- even a hectoring fiery thrasonic Hibernian Mars -- himself, without being able to tell whether it was a black or a blue one, or even a Green or a Yellow.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 22, 1893
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On this 13-day tour you'll see imperial eagles, Egyptian vultures and Dalmatian pelicans, plus frescoed monasteries, Roman ruins and the monuments of the Thracian horsemen.
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Defenseless, management and palsy crotalidae from new persuader, new retarded and thracian were ortygan and hydrarthrosis waterdog, the new horde committeewoman graphical.
Rational Review
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For Tereus dwelt in Daulia, a part of the region which is now called Phocis but in those days was inhabited by Thracians, and in that country Itys suffered at the hands of the women Procnè and Philomela.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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During the 12th and 11th centuries BCE, Thracians settled not only on the peninsular mainland and the Mediterranean islands, but also moved south-eastwards into Asia Minor.
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Accordingly, not wishing to incur expense in their present want of money, they sent back at once the Thracians who came too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if possible in the voyage alongshore to injure the enemy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
