The Tiber is called Lydian from a tradition that the Lydians had colonised. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor] Reference
Alcman, the great lyric poet of Sparta (Lydian by birth), brought the so-called Lydian measure to its highest perfection. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
All you gotta do is find which one is the Ionian (or Eolic if you prefer) for the D Lydian, which is the A major (or F# minor). From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
But the reality is that it's more of a "major-scale-with-an-added-note" sound than it is a "Lydian" sound or a "modal" sound. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
And greet him happy; greet him all the lake Lydian. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
RICHARDSON: Lydian outlived him by nearly 20 years. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson: The Mind on Fire] Reference
The last and most renowned of the Lydian kings was Croesus. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Alyattes the Lydian, when he had thus waged war against the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
The Lydian Empire was large country in part of today Turkey. From Wordnik.com. [Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation] Reference
But Pentheus knows best; no smooth-tongued Lydian shall trick him. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
It was adorned with old statues and shrines, Lydian, Persian, Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Lydian treasure from Turkey; Moche tombs of Sipán, Peru; Getty kouros. From Wordnik.com. [Stealing History] Reference
Lydian empire attained its greatest extension, embracing all the states of. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
All antecedent historical parallels -- the ruin and captivity of the Lydian. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
Over by her wagon, her two maids sat in its shade, chattering softly in Lydian. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
Cyrus marched across the Halys, defeated the Lydian army in the field, and after. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
Lydian, being that which our people use, a foot and a half long and one foot wide. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
The Lydian portion ends with a graphic description of laws, customs and monuments. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Lydian practitioner, Thessalus, who maintained that all learning was without value. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The earlier reigns of Lydian kings are recounted in a series of striking narratives. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Lydian coin of about 700 B.C.; the material is electrum, a compound of gold and silver. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The pride of the Hellene is further humbled, by being compared to a Phrygian or Lydian. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesman] Reference
My son, do you think you are pursuing some hireling Lydian or Phrygian with your taunts?. From Wordnik.com. [Alcestis] Reference
The city was soon taken, however, and with its capture the Lydian kingdom came to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
For Mardonius sent a Lydian thither, and another person, a Carian, to the cave of Trophonius. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Agylla city, an ancient pile of stone, where of old the Lydian race, eminent in war, settled on the Etruscan ridges. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Then, freed from the oracle, the Lydian people man their fleet, laid by divine ordinance in the foreign captain's hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Lydian war: but a democracy is a state where the freemen and the poor, being the majority, are invested with the power of the state. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
The reasons given for the word meaning Lydian seem to be insufficient; because it is said the Benacus resembles the Lydian rivers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
From Philocles, the Egyptian, and Gyges, a Lydian, both of whom, according to Pliny, acquired the knowledge of the art of painting in. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
The vase painting represents the Lydian king sitting enthroned upon the pyre, with a laurel wreath on his head and a scepter in one hand. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Herodotus (I, 93), who relates about the same thing of the Lydian women, adds that they acquired a dowry in that manner; an inscription at. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
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