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Thracian

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During a Bacchae orgy, Orpheus is beaten to death by Thracian women. Title in Latin in the bottom margin.
During a Bacchae orgy, Orpheus is beaten to death by Thracian women. Title in Latin in the bottom margin.
  1. (adj) Thracian
    of or relating to Thrace or its people or culture
  2. (n) Thracian
    a Thraco-Phrygian language spoken by the ancient people of Thrace but extinct by the early Middle Ages
  3. (n) Thracian
    an inhabitant of ancient Thrace
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Thracian
    Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Thracian
    The language (any language) spoken in ancient Thrace. From the scanty remains of the Thracian dialects (chiefly proper names) it is inferred that they belonged to the Indo-European family.
  2. (n) Thracian
    In geology, the uppermost stage of the Pliocene Tertiary series in the Vienna basin of Austria, represented by conglomerates, gravels, and sands containing bones of large mammals and shells of Unios and, in locally distributed freshwater limestones, the shells of Helix and Planorbis. The Thracian beds lie on the Congeria beds of the Lower Pliocene.
  3. Thracian
    Of or pertaining to Thrace, a region in southeastern Europe (formerly a Roman province), included between the Balkans and the Ægean and Black Seas.
  4. (n) Thracian
    An inhabitant or a native of Thrace.
Usage in the news

Archaeologist shows an artifact, part of 2,400-year old golden hoard found in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgarian village of Sveshtari, some 400 kilometer (250 miles) northeast of Sofia, on Thursday, Nov 8, 2012. startribune.com

Archeologists dig up Thracian hoard of gold. globalpost.com

Archeologists in Bulgaria dug up a collection of gold objects in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria today. globalpost.com

Archaeologists discover Thracian golden jewelry. mercurynews.com

The Thracians , ruled by a powerful warrior aristocracy rich in gold treasures, inhabited an area extending over modern Romania and Bulgaria, northern Greece and the European part of Turkey from as early as 4,000 BC. msnbc.msn.com

Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. modbee.com

Thracian Gold Treasure Discovered in Bulgaria (Pictures). nationalgeographic.com

Bulgaria will host a European Tour event for the first time when the 2013 World Match Play Championship is staged at the Black Sea resort of Thracian Cliffs. sau.com

Bulgaria will host a European Tour event for the first time when the 2013 World Match Play Championship is staged at the Black Sea resort of Thracian Cliffs. sau.com

The tomb is dated back to the Thracian civilization. ksee24.com

Usage in literature

First they sailed northwest to the Thracian coast, where the Ciconians dwelt, who had helped the men of Troy. "Myths That Every Child Should Know" by Various

Next he invaded Thessaly, damaged a very great extent of it, and ranged Thracian interests on his side. "Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6)" by Cassius Dio

At length wild Thracian women heard it, furious in the rites of Dionysus. "Among Famous Books" by John Kelman

Most of all, Richard had been spoiled by an admiration for Democritus, which Thracian's acquaintance he picked up at school. "The President" by Alfred Henry Lewis

We were leaving, and looking our last on the Thracian coasts, once rimmed from Mt. "Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII" by Various

For he had already taken possession of it not long before, having sent Conon with no small force of Isaurians and Thracians. "Procopius" by Procopius

Eight was the number known in Athens, until finally the Thracian worship of nine spread over the whole of Greece. "Woman's Work in Music" by Arthur Elson

The eighth labor of Hercules was to bring the mares of the Thracian Diomede to Mycene. "Myths and Legends of All Nations" by Various

What is now Bulgaria was in the days of Herodotus inhabited by Thracian and Illyrian tribes. "Bulgaria" by Frank Fox

Ovid's banishment among the Thracians could scarcely be a more formidable change of position. "Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844" by Various

Usage in poetry
I loathe all earth, all life!
These Thracian women gaze
And whispering, go their ways,
Seeing I loathe my life.
"Eurydice" by Sophie Margaret Hensley
Thracian parents, at his birth,
Mourn their babe with many a tear,
But, with undissembled mirth,
Place him breathless on his bier.
"The Thracian" by William Cowper Author object (696)
For ease the Mede with quiver graced,
For ease the Thracian hero sighs,
Delightful ease all pant to taste,
A blessing which no treasure buys.
"Horace, Book II. Ode XVI." by William Cowper Author object (696)
I would not wrest you from the Thracian boy
Who loves you and whose vows of love you love;
I ask but that you sit awhile with me
And let the blossom kiss you from above.
"Senex Ad Chloen" by Ethel Clifford Author object (194)
"Sweetest of all the Ægean Isles," it said,
"Oh, bury me beneath thy fruitful vines,
And pour libations of thy choicest wines;
For, lo, I am the far-famed Thracian singer's head!
"The Orphic Legacy" by Maurice Thompson Author object (489)
I wonder, like the maid who found,
And knelt to lift, the lyre supreme
Of Orpheus from the Thracian stream.
She dreams on its sealed past profound;
On a deep future sealed I dream.
"Future Poetry" by Alice Meynell Author object (30)