Ogygian

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Ogygian

(əʊˈdʒɪdʒɪən)
adj
of very great age; prehistoric
[C19: from Greek ōgugios relating to Ogyges, the most ancient king of Greece, mythical ruler of Boeotia or Attica]
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References in classic literature
And Minerva said, "Father, son of Saturn, King of kings, if, then, the gods now mean that Ulysses should get home, we should first send Mercury to the Ogygian island to tell Calypso that we have made up our minds and that he is to return.
If a building or artifact is 'Ogygian', what is it?
Catherine Fisher, director of Huddersfield-based Ogygian, which rents properties to students, said she was delighted to sign up.
The example he gives is "an Ogygian disaster" ([LANGUAGE NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] where the proper name means "primeval" and "enormous." In the Adagia (no.
In a thought-provoking essay entitled |Making Up People' (1986), Hacking looks at the social construction of social phenomena and shows how many apparently unchanging human characteristics are more the product of informational processes than Ogygian characteristics of the species.
In a thought-provoking essay entitled 'Making Up People' (1986), Hacking looks at the social construction of social phenomena and shows how many apparently unchanging human characteristics are more the product of informational processes than Ogygian characteristics of the species.
Spartacus 00 b h Danehill - Teslemi (Ogygian) Stands: Coolmore Stud.
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