Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient country and Roman province of southwest Asia Minor on the Aegean Sea. Ruled from early times by Persia and Syria, it was annexed by Rome in the first century AD.
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- proper noun An ancient region and Roman province in the southwest of
Asia Minor , betweenCaria andPamphylia
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- noun an ancient region on the coast of southwest Asia Minor
Etymologies
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Any news you care to share about those in Lycia would be very welcome.
holiday 2009
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The monument from which this group is copied was discovered by Sir Charles Fellows at Xanthus, in Lycia, and it dates from about five hundred and forty years before our era.
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But he indulged a spirit of revenge equally repugnant to prudence and to justice, when he degraded their native country of Lycia from the rank of Roman provinces; stigmatized a guiltless people with a mark of ignominy; and declared, that the countrymen of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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7 Sylverius, bishop of Rome, was first transported to Patara, in Lycia, and at length starved (sub eorum custodia inedia confectus) in the Isle of Palmaria, A.D.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The painters and sculptors could not express his figure: the historians appeared fabulous when they related his exploits, (Ammian.xxvi. and Vales. ad loc.)] 41 The same field of battle is placed by Ammianus in Lycia, and by Zosimus at Thyatira, which are at the distance of 150 miles from each other.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Apollo, and Zeleia was also called Lycia; facts which show that there was a real connection between the name of Lycia and the worship of Apollo, and that it was the worship of Apollo which gave the name to this district of Troy, as it had done to the country of the Solymi. "
The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840
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With his lean and hardened army, he set off from Halicarnassus into the wild highlands of Lycia along the southern coast of Asia Minor just as the leaves were falling from the trees.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He was a native of Lycia in southern Asia Minor who years before had been captured and exiled to this distant corner of Persia.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Alexander was encouraged by this prophecy as he struggled over snow-covered passes to eastern Lycia.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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He had forgotten this curious response for years, but with this man from Lycia before him it began to make sense.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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