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Mysian

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My·si·a  (msh-)
An ancient region of northwest Asia Minor. It passed successively to Lydia, Persia, Macedon, Syria, Pergamum, and Rome.
Mysi·an adj. & n.
Mysian [ˈmɪsɪən]
adj
(Placename) (Social Science / Peoples) of or relating to Mysia, an ancient region in Asia Minor, or its inhabitants
n
(Social Science / Peoples) a native or inhabitant of Mysia


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Everything irrational should, if possible, be excluded; or, at all events, it should lie outside the action of the play (as, in the Oedipus, the hero's ignorance as to the manner of Laius' death); not within the drama,--as in the Electra, the messenger's account of the Pythian games; or, as in the Mysians, the man who has come from Tegea to Mysia and is still speechless.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
And Auge bare Telephus of the stock of Areas, king of the Mysians, being joined in love with the mighty Heracles when he was journeying in quest of the horses of proud Laomedon -- horses the fleetest of foot that the Asian land nourished, -- and destroyed in battle the tribe of the dauntless Amazons and drove them forth from all that land.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.
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