Hellenical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Hellenic. archaic, rare

    "If therefore the learned men above-mentioned mean only, that the Etruſcan language agrees with that firſt ſpoken in Greece, we readily ſubſcribe to their opinion; but, if they are to be underſtood of the later or Hellenical Greek, we muſt beg leave to diſſent from them. […] We ſay, more unmixed with ſtrangers than their neighbours; ſince the Etruſcans, in general, had had an intercourſe for ſome ages with the Romans and Hellenical Greeks, when Herodotus wrote his hiſtory."

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"If therefore the learned men above-mentioned mean only, that the Etruſcan language agrees with that firſt ſpoken in Greece, we readily ſubſcribe to their opinion; but, if they are to be underſtood of the later or Hellenical Greek, we muſt beg leave to diſſent from them. […] We ſay, more unmixed with ſtrangers than their neighbours; ſince the Etruſcans, in general, had had an intercourſe for ſome ages with the Romans and Hellenical Greeks, when Herodotus wrote his hiſtory."

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