Megapolitan

megapolitan English Etymology A variant of en Megalopolitan; analysable as en w:Megapolis itan. Megapolis is derived from en la-lat megapolis, from en grc μεγα- prefix meaning ‘large’ + grc πόλις city.megapolis n 115905 June 2001 yes; megapolis Pronunciation en /mɛɡəˈpɒlɪtən/ RP en /mɛɡəˈpɑlɪtən/ /-lə-/ GA en megapolitan en Me ga pol i tan Adjective - en Ancient Greece Of, pertaining to, or from the ancient city of Megalopolis (now Megalopoli) in Greece. en Megalopolitan en SELLASIA [Thomas Stewart Traill] The Encyclopædia Britannica, or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature 8th Boston, Mass. Little, Brown, & Co. 1860 42 https://books.google.com/books?id=vTg_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA42 1 954002838 At length he [Antigonus III Doson] assaulted with his right wing the position of Eucleidas; and, favoured by an error of that general, and a timely charge of Philopœmen with the Megapolitan cavalry, gained a complete victory. en H. R. James Art. V.—Across the Peloponnesus. The Calcutta Review Calcutta Printed & published by the City Press,12, Bentinck Street, Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co.,Government Place, N. [...]; Madras: Messrs. Higginbotham & Co.; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ld.,Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C. January 1902 CXIV CCXXVII section III (Karytæna and Megalopolis) 51 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.20883/page/n60/mode/1up 695639494 The upshot is, we are guided by a party of shock-headed Arcadians, who are going in the direction of the excavations, and a Megapolitan boy who has probably an eye to gain. Translations of, pertaining to, or from the ancient city of Megalopolis in Greece Noun en Ancient Greece An inhabitant of the ancient city of Megalopolis (now Megalopoli) in Greece. en Megalopolitan en w:Quintus Curtius Rufus Robert Codrington The Sixth Book of Quintus Curtius. Of the Acts of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. The Life and Death of Alexander the Great, King of Macedon. In Ten Books,[...] Exactly Conferred with the Original, and Purged from Many Gross Errors and Absurdities, with which It before Abounded. Done into English by the Same Hand which Translated the Last Volume of the Holy Court. London Printed for Tho[mas] Johnson for Samuel Speed,near the Royal Exchange. 1670 213 https://books.google.com/books?id=EZBmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA213 794865600 The Megapolitans whoſe City did abide the ſiege, were compelled to pay as a fine for their rebellion twenty talents to the Athenians, and the Æolians. en Lewis Ellis du Pin [i.e., Louis Ellies Dupin] Sect. XXXV. An Abridgment of the History of the Time between Xerxes and Alexander the Great, Extracted from Diodorus Siculus. [Olympiad CVII. 1st Year. Aristodemus Archon.] The Universal Library of Historians; (viz.) The Oriental, Greek, Latin, French, German, Spanish, Italian, English, and Others.[...] Written in French [...]. Done into English from the Paris Edicion. London Printed for R. Bonwicke [et al.] 1709 II 159 https://books.google.com/books?id=Mia7yNAeVe8C&pg=PA159 54583092 The Lacedæmonians, in Conjunction with the Phocenſes, make War with the Megapolitans, Thebans and Argives. After ſeveral Battles, in which both ſides are ſometimes ſucceſsful, and at other times unſucceſsful, a Truce is concluded between the Lacedæmonians and Megapolitans. en w:Adolf Holm; [Frederick Clarke, transl.] The Sacred War—Beginning of Demosthenes’ Career (356–352) The History of Greece from Its Commencement to the Close of the Independence of the Greek Nation [...] Translated from the German: In Four Volumes London Macmillan and Co., Limited; New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company 1896 III (The 4th century B.C. up to the Death of Alexander) 238 https://archive.org/details/historyofgreecef03holmuoft/page/238/mode/1up 977674539 When, therefore, the above-mentioned request for help from the Megapolitans reached Athens in 352, Demosthenes expressed himself in favour of complying with it, especially emphasizing the necessity of not allowing Sparta to become too powerful. Translations inhabitant of the ancient city of Megalopolis in Greece References Further reading Megalopolis, Greece