Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Milesian? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
This event had been foretold by Thales, the Milesian, who forewarned the Ionians of it, fixing for it the very year in which it took place.
He produced a play about the Persian slaughter of the Milesians, a disaster that devastated the Athenians who were deeply partisan to the Milesian cause.
But the Milesian school of philosophers that Thales founded produced little consensus about the prote hyle or first matter that constituted everything.
Examples from Classical Literature
Were they swept into the sea by the advancing hosts of the Milesian tribes?
The robe of fine Milesian texture, was saffron-coloured, with a purple edge.
At school the young Milesian had been distinguished in the exercise of vaulting.
The latter were appointed by the elders of the merchant-body in this Milesian colony.
But he had the right to keep his own council, and the Milesian asked no questions.
Like a pavid kid in the talons of an eagle, that young creature trembled in his huge Milesian grasp.
You have heard, Menexenus, the oration of Aspasia the Milesian.
Alluding to the Milesian tales, some of the earliest romances.
Croesus sat by Rhodopis, Theopompus the Milesian lay at her feet.
And Isidore, another Milesian, was also a master of machinery.
Hesiod once sojourned at the same house in Locris with a certain Milesian.
For in snug darkness abideth the outlawed Milesian, and if in Galway it's for him you're looking, it's in the pubs on the Quay you'll find him, and nowhere else.
The work presents a discussion of Maturin's major works including The Wild Irish Boy, The Milesian Chief and his most famous work Melmoth the Wanderer.
Now occurred one of those chances which decide the fortunes of plants, as well as those of men, giving me a claim to Norman, instead of Milesian descent.
