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Carian

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Car·i·an  (kâr-n)
adj.
Of or relating to the inhabitants of ancient Caria, their culture, or their language.
n.
1. An inhabitant of ancient Caria.
2. The extinct Anatolian language of the Carians, known from scattered funerary inscriptions.


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Though popularly ascribed to Homer, its real author is said by Suidas to have been Pigres, a Carian, brother of Artemisia, `wife of Mausonis', who distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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