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Lycian

Lycian may refer to:

  • Lycia, a former geopolitical region in Anatolia
  • Lycian Apollo, a type of ancient Greek statuary
  • Lycian language, the language of Lycia
  • Lycian alphabet, used to write the Lycian language
  • Lycian (Unicode block), the block of Unicode characters of the Lycian script
  • Lycian Way, a footpath in Turkey
Lycian (Unicode block)

Lycian is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the ancient Lycian language in Anatolia.

Usage examples of "lycian".

The jurisdiction of that province extended over the ancient monarchies of Troy, Lydia, and Phrygia, the maritime countries of the Pamphylians, Lycians, and Carians, and the Grecian colonies of Ionia, which equalled in arts, though not in arms, the glory of their parent.

Glaucus, at the head of his ranks of chariots and 11,000 wild Lycians ready to fight.

The Lycian coast was as famous for pirates as the coasts of Pamphylia and Cilicia Tracheia, for in the groins of the mighty mountains lay coves fed by streamlets, ideal for pirate lairs.

Lycian border be a cause of the rumored new alliance between the Carians and Solymians, our ancient enemies.

Next, in the Lycian plain of Xanthus, he beat off a band of Carian pirates led by one Cheimarrhus, a fiery and boastful warrior, who sailed in a ship adorned with a lion figurehead and a serpent stern.

On the other hand, foreseeing that Amisidoros, the Carian king, would attempt to exploit the beast as a new secret weapon to guard the long-disputed boundary, he was able to forewarn Iobates and establish himself in the Lycian court as a special defense-minister.

I been less full of Philonoƫ I might have heard in time his protests that he was not Solymian but Carian, a goatherd whose flock the Solymian raiding party, taking him for a Lycian, had made off with at my first bomb-run from the hilltop.

He laid the arrow on the string and prayed to Lycian Apollo, the famous archer, vowing that when he got home to his strong city of Zelea he would offer a hecatomb of firstling lambs in his honour.