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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name of three Persian rulers, notably Darius the Great, Persian emperor 521-485 B.C.E., from Greek Darius, from Old Persian Darayavaus, probably literally "he who holds firm the good," from PIE root *dher- (2) "to hold firmly, support" (see firm (adj.)).
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is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Taito in February 1987, even though its title screen mistakenly informs about a 1986 release. It is the first game in the Darius series. It is known for using a unique three-screen arcade cabinet setup, non-linear level design and multiple endings.
A port by Softek and The Edge was released for the Amiga and Atari ST titled Darius+. An expanded port by Bits Laboratory and NEC was released for the PC Engine's Super CD-ROM² titled . Another expanded port was made for the PC Engine itself, titled , which is similar to the Amiga and Atari ST title. A boss rush version of Darius Plus was released under the name .
Darius is a fictional character from Highlander: The Series, portrayed by actor Werner Stocker. He first appeared in the season one episode "Band of Brothers" (1993) and is featured in four subsequent episodes of the same season, as well as in one Highlander novel. A two-thousand-year-old Immortal living as a monk in Paris, France, he is a friend and mentor of protagonist Duncan MacLeod.
He is a peace advocate, having rejected violence fifteen hundred years ago. He is retired on Holy Ground where other Immortals are forbidden to fight him and lives in his spartanly furnished rectory, visited by other Immortals, studying old books, playing martial games, and brewing ancient beverages.
Creative Consultant David Abramowitz's initial idea of Darius having an ugly face but a beautiful soul was abandoned when Stocker was cast and Darius became a moral figure of the show. Darius' further development in following seasons was prevented by Stocker's illness and subsequent death, leading Abramowitz to rewrite the season one final episode "The Hunters" (1993).
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is the name of a series of shoot 'em up video games developed and published by Taito. The first game was released alongside similar works such as R-Type and Gradius; even then, the series' claims to fame included atypical background music, many different levels via branching paths, and unusual bosses (spaceships based on various fish or crustaceans).
Darius (floruit 425-437) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Darius is a male given name. Etymologically it is the English transliteration of the Persian name Dariush, meaning "he possesses" or "rich and kingly". It can be pronounced as either dare-ee-us, dairy-us, or dar-ius, like dar rhyming with the letter R. The name also has another meaning: "He who holds firm to good."
Darius (foaled 1951) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the classic 2000 Guineas in 1954. In a racing career which lasted from the spring of 1953 until November 1955 he ran twenty-one times, won nine races and was placed on ten occasions. He was one of the best British two-year-olds of his generation, winning four races including the July Stakes and the Champagne Stakes. In the following year he won the 2000 Guineas and the St. James's Palace Stakes, finished second in the Eclipse Stakes and third in both the Epsom Derby and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. He won three more races as a four-year-old including the Eclipse Stakes. After a disappointing run in the Washington, D.C. International Stakes he was retired to stud where he had considerable success as a sire of winners.
Usage examples of "darius".
Apparently the Babylonians and the Indians had been in regular correspondence long before Darius and Scylax.
Darius indicated the long line of the river that runs from the high mountains east of Bactria down to a complex delta that empties into what is called the Sea of India.
I was also able to persuade Xerxes to denounce the devas and their worshipers in far stronger terms than Darius had ever used.
There was no love lost between Kane and Darius, and the prospect of them occupying the same place and time did not fill her up with the warmest and fuzziest of feelings.
She pulled the tarpaulin off of the object and gawked at the piece atop the pedestal for a long time, then turned to see Darius smiling.
Then Darius and I and my sister Artystone will occupy another shelf, while six of the nephews are to fill the remaining two shelves.
Tactfully, I would tell them that a maharajah more resembles the pharaoh in Egypt or the king of Babel, titles that Darius bore.
If Darius was not the most beautiful of the Persians, he was certainly a dazzling sight as he moved between the twenty-two columns of the apadana—rather like a lion, stalking.
If Darius was not the most beautiful of the Persians, he was certainly a dazzling sight as he moved between the twenty-two columns of the apadana-rather like a lion, stalking.
At the base of the cidaris, Darius wore the blue-and-white fillet of sovereignty that had belonged to Cyrus and before him to the ten successive kings of Media.
Darius drove us past this armed picket line and up the curving drive to the boardinghouse, then along the grassy track between the boardinghouse and the wood-shingled carriage house, then past that garage straight down the clovery slope towards Hellbender Pond.
Quite probably Old Hasius and Lasat might find enough here to link Copro to the Avenging Axe and the death of Darius.
She dreamed of Kara, looking like herself, and of Earle, looking like a cross between Angus and Darius.
Her thought carried an added nuance: the legendary Earle, in the story told on Jupiter, had looked like a cross between Angus and Darius.
You know that Earle in the Jupiter legend looks like a cross between Angus and Darius, and Kara looks like you.