Get Free Checker

Phrygia

NOUN
  1. an ancient country in western and central Asia Minor

How To Use Phrygia In A Sentence

  • After the rearrangement of boundaries that followed the decisive battle of Ipsus (fought in Phrygia 301 B.C.), these principal states had the outlines shown by the accompanying map. General History for Colleges and High Schools
  • Seleu'cus, Lysimachus, and Cassander to unite against him; and they fought with him the famous battle of Ipsus, in Phrygia, that ended in the death of Antigonus and the dissolution of his empire (301 B.C.). Mosaics of Grecian History
  • Farther west was the dominion of the Thraco-Phrygian Muski. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
  • It is a product of classical studies of the ancient Phrygian terrorist cult of Satan-Dionysos, the model for the Roman Bacchic cults of similar characteristics. Lyndon LaRouche on Satanism by Grand Magister Blackwood | Disinformation
  • It is logical, then, that the use of the descending tetrachord leads Weelkes to introduce the phrygian mode in a yet more obvious fashion in the following phrase, ‘Care they for me’.
  • Thraco-Phrygian peoples who had overrun the Balkans, occupied Thrace and Macedonia, and crossed into Asia Minor. Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
  • Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
  • There is another kind of daw found in Lybia and Phrygia, which is web-footed. The History of Animals
  • There was also a cope of exquisite grey silk on which was woven a female figure with buskined legs, wearing a short sky-blue tunic and the red Phrygian cap.
  • Italy has always preserved its name, notwithstanding the pretended establishment of Æneas, which should have left some traces of the language, characters, and manners of Phrygia, if he ever came with Achates and so many others, into the province of A Philosophical Dictionary
View all