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  • noun Plural form of Colchian.

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Examples

  • Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of Sesostris.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Now from the Maiotian lake to the river Phasis and to the land of the Colchians is a journey of thirty days for one without encumbrance; 126 and from

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • So when I had come to consider the matter I asked them both; and the Colchians had remembrance of the Egyptians more than the Egyptians of the Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of Sesostris.

    An Account of Egypt: Being the Second Book of His Histories Called Euterpe. Paras. 40-59 Herodotus 1909

  • Egyptians more than the Egyptians of the Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Egyptians of the Colchians; but the Egyptians said they believed that the Colchians were a portion of the army of Sesostris.

    An Account of Egypt 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Arrival among the Phaeacians: here other Colchians reclaim Medea, and, to prevent her surrender, her marriage with Jason is celebrated (982 – 1169). —

    The Argonautica 2008

  • The Argonauts sail up the Ister, by a branch of which they make their way into the Adriatic, where they find their progress barred by the Colchians, who had come by a shorter route (294 – 337). —

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Now dawn returning with her beams divine scattered the gloomy night through the sky; and the island beaches laughed out and the paths over the plains far off, drenched with dew, and there was a din in the streets; the people were astir throughout the city, and far away the Colchians were astir at the bounds of the isle of Macris.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Pursued by the Colchians, they land in Paphlagonia, where Argus shows them the route to take (212 – 293). —

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Murder of Apsyrtus by Jason: the Colchians give up the pursuit (452 – 551). —

    The Argonautica 2008

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