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  • noun Plural form of Ionian.

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Examples

  • The best proof of this the speaker himself furnished, when he called the Ionians eternal enemies of the Dorians.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • The best proof of this the speaker himself furnished, when he called the Ionians eternal enemies of the

    The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

  • 2 The best proof of this the speaker himself furnished, when he called the Ionians eternal enemies of the Dorians.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • 2 The best proof of this the speaker himself furnished, when he called the Ionians eternal enemies of the Dorians.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • The Ionians were the same branch of Greeks as the Athenians, though the Ephesians did not always support their kindred in war.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The Ionians were the same branch of Greeks as the Athenians, though the Ephesians did not always support their kindred in war.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • The Ionians were the same branch of Greeks as the Athenians, though the Ephesians did not always support their kindred in war.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • Delay not, therefore, to assist Potidaea, a Dorian city besieged by Ionians, which is quite a reversal of the order of things; nor to assert the freedom of the rest.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • During this time the Ionians were the race of Hellenes who dwelt near them in most of the places where they were; and these, having received letters by instruction of the Phenicians, changed their form slightly and so made use of them, and in doing so they declared them to be called “phenicians,” as was just, seeing that the Phenicians had introduced them into Hellas.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Delay not, therefore, to assist Potidaea, a Dorian city besieged by Ionians, which is quite a reversal of the order of things; nor to assert the freedom of the rest.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

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