The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhodian \Rho"di*an\, a. [L. Rhodius: cf. F. rhodien.] Of or pertaining to Rhodes, an island of the Mediterranean. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Rhodes.
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a. (context mineralogy English) Describing minerals containing rhodium
Usage examples of "rhodian".
AEmilius Paullus punishes the Epirotes 135 His triumph 135 His domestic misfortunes 136 Haughty conduct of Rome in the East 136 Embassy to Antiochus Epiphanes 136 Treatment of Eumenes, king of Pergamus 136 Mean conduct of Prusias, king of Bythinia 136 Treatment of the Rhodians 136 167.
Most of it went to the Rhodians, who provided the manpower and seapower for the exercise.
The trireme's captain - a short, stocky Rhodian called Callis - met him on the beach.
In fog and a damp cold on the Day of the Dead he stood in a stubbled field between the ancient Rhodian high road to Trakesia and the southernmost edgings of the infinitely more ancient forest and fell to his knees at what he saw on the road when the mist parted.
Then, seeing that the enemy had gotten their arms above deck, and were making ready to make a fight of it, he followed up his words by casting a grapnel upon the poop of the Rhodians, who were making great way.
It embraced a black-figured amphora by Amasis, a proto-Corinthian vase in the Aegean style, Koubatcha and Rhodian plates, Athenian pottery, a sixteenth-century Italian holywater stoup of rock crystal, pewter of the Tudor period (several pieces bearing the double-rose hallmark), a bronze plaque by Cellini, a triptych of Limoges enamel, a Spanish retable of an altarpiece by Vallfogona, several Etruscan bronzes, an Indian Greco Buddhist, a statuette of the Goddess Kuan Yin from the Ming Dynasty, a number of very fine Renaissance woodcuts, and several specimens of Byzantine, Carolingian, and early French ivory carvings.
The gaol too was broken open by the Rhodians, and the prisoners of war whom Philip had immured there as being the safest place of custody were released.
I, on the other hand, do not entirely subscribe to the general loathing and contempt for the sanctimonious, cowardly, shit-smeared Rhodian catamites that most soldiers of the Empire profess.