The Ionian has been the source of the Eastern scripts, Romaic, Coptic. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Macareus was a son of Crinacus the son of Zeus as Hesiod says ... and dwelt in Olenus in the country then called Ionian, but now. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
The eldest school of Greek philosophy, called the Ionian, was founded by Thales of Miletus, about the middle of the sixth century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
"The Ionian is a slow boat; at least, she is not as fast as the. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting for the Right] Reference
The Venetians had never lost hold upon the 'Ionian' chain of islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference
(remember, the "Ionian" mode is just the standard major scale) is almost the same as the D. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
Thou shalt drown thy sorrows in good Ionian wine. '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Ionian cadences floated out from the roofless Odeum. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Ionian coasts, and on the north the chain of the Balkans. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Ionian music floated by like the rhythm of angels 'wings. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Again, when he was sent as High Commissioner to the Ionian. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
They answered: 'Chios the Greek, the great Ionian artist.'. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Ionian and Corinthian columns were placed in the same line. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Ionian squadrons into the dense mass of the Persian centre. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
To withdraw the English flag from Ireland as we did from the Ionian. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
The rest dispersed to the harbours of Italy and the Ionian islands. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Ionian art crossed westward to Greece, but the Dorian never went east. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
HORÆ IONICÆ, descriptive of the Ionian Isles and Part of the adjacent. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
It is true that we have a few fragments of the works of both Ionian and. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Ionian isles, his presence was ever worth a thousand men in battle action. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
The stronger detachment passed the winter at Corfu, in the Ionian islands. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
Lucius could not leave Ephesus without the poorest Ionian youth knowing it. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
In Ionian and early Attic sculpture women appear closely wrapped up in drapery. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Perchance 'twas some Ionian beauty or Carian girl who had smitten him suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Halicarnassus, had fought in the front line among the ships of the Ionian squadron. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The Ionian philosophers had speculated on the physical constitution of the universe, the. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
And it was not only in the Adriatic and in the Ionian Seas that Austria paralyzed our actions. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
She, who stands first of Ionian women, Queen of the World next the goddess, how is it possible? '. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Here was a life of danger; and this Ionian -- big, powerful, muscled like the heroes of the Circus. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
Ionian tribes; wealthy Athenians chose Spartan nurses in preference, as being generally strong and healthy. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The Ionian tendency was to see motion everywhere; it was rest that had to be explained, or rather the appearance of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
In his astronomical theories, however, Anaxagoras showed himself a true eastern Ionian, and lagged far behind the Pythagoreans. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The moralizing of Bacchylides is rather an utterance of quiet meditation, sometimes recalling the strain of Ionian gnomic elegy. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Ionian, and we should naturally expect to find that he brought at least the beginnings of what he called philosophy from eastern Hellas. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
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