Homeric Greek. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
This is because it is what might be called a Homeric error. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Most Commonly Misspelled Phrases:] Reference
We notice the strange quantity Lucius, which recalls the Homeric. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
The poems known as Homeric hymns formed an essential part of the epic style. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Rabelais has been called the Homeric buffoon, Lucian is certainly the Socratic. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Literature] Reference
Their appearance, when they were encamped on the Bowling Green, recalls the Homeric age. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
Their appearance, when they were encamped on the Bowling Green, recalls the Homeric age. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Irving] Reference
This mimetic practice is not lost here on Herodotus who is recalling the Homeric trope of the improper burial. From Wordnik.com. [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference
The fourth canto, Li Demandaire (The Suitors), recalls the Homeric style, and is among the finest of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Mistral]
They all purport to be the work of the sibyls, and are expressed in hexameter verses in the so-called Homeric dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
MAEONIIS = = 'Homeric', Homer being considered a native of Maeonia. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference
Spark uses these simple notorieties repetitively, almost as a kind of Homeric tag, whenever the characters are reintroduced in the book. From Wordnik.com. [The Prime of Ms. Muriel Spark] Reference
Mr. Yeats even used the word "Homeric" about him -- surely the most inappropriate word it would be possible to imagine. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
The much-abused and nearly meaningless adjective "Homeric" is here, in so far as it has any meaning, once more appropriate. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
To translate the Hymns usually called "Homeric" had long been my wish, and, at the Publisher's suggestion, I undertook the work. From Wordnik.com. [The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological] Reference
Inexperienced critics have often named this, which may be called the Homeric manner, superficial from its apparent simple facility. ". From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Odyssey of Oxford life -- a kind of Homeric man. ". From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Thereby hangs a tale of, well, Homeric proportions. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Hoard] Reference
Each outing was a zigzagging, semi-Homeric journey. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Grimes's "The Leash": Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference
Such an objection has some truth with reference to the Homeric poems. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
The Homeric heroes are, of any thing, a little too much given to talking. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The French epic with all its Homeric analogies is not as sincere as Homer. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
In Homeric and even in later times, a small table stood before each thronos. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Homeric, may be felt and recognised at every turn in a survey of the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Homeric must have been the laughter of his troops when this report was published. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
They lead pastoral lives and their customs are much like those of the Homeric age. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
One other Homeric fight with the machine was Roosevelt's portion during his Governorship. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Homeric brain of the great Goethe had sucked up, as an alembic, all the juice of the forbidden fruit. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Then grandpa finally died, and "Gone With the Wind" took up the Homeric burden of passing the epic along. From Wordnik.com. [After The Survivors] Reference
Minister of Education, and had carried an imagination already prepossessed and dazzled with Homeric visions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He blinded him in one eye, my sweet old Eugene Forcer, and now allEugenedoes is go around moaning and writing Homeric odes!. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference
It is here that the Shakespearean and Homeric worlds impinge and merge, not to be separated by any academic classifications. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
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