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- adjective Of or relating to
Pierides orMuses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This was effected by the expulsion from Pieria of the Pierians, who afterwards inhabited Phagres and other places under Mount Pangaeus along the sea beyond the Strymon indeed the country between Pangaeus and the sea is still called the Pierian gulf, and also by the expulsion of the Bottiaeans, at present neighbors of the Chalcidians from Bottiaea.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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This was effected by the expulsion from Pieria of the Pierians, who afterwards inhabited Phagres and other places under Mount Pangaeus along the sea beyond the Strymon indeed the country between Pangaeus and the sea is still called the Pierian gulf, and also by the expulsion of the Bottiaeans, at present neighbors of the Chalcidians from Bottiaea.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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The first line is plain enough; but I do not at all know the meaning of Pierian, which is in the second.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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Unlike past years, few copies remain of the 100th edition of "Pierian," Richmond High School's yearbook.
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.”
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Never again would he “plunge head-first into the Pierian Spring.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring”, &c.
Matthew Yglesias » For Democrats, Even a 2010 Win Will Feel Like a Loss 2010
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Never again would he “plunge head-first into the Pierian Spring.”
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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In fact, my slight acquaintance with the fountainhead Pierian
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His very slight acquaintance with the fountainhead Pierian
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