Lemnian

British  

/ ˈlɛmnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Greek island of Lemnos or its inhabitants

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Lemnos

Example Sentences

And now the glorious artist, ere he yet 370 Had reach’d the Lemnian isle, limping, return’d From his feign’d journey, for his spy the sun Had told him all.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

It was the sheer joy of proving that the Lemnian stock had a starker pride than these men of Lacedamon.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

Lemnian, lem′ni-an, adj. pertaining to Lemnos in the �gean Sea.—Lemnian earth, cimolite; Lemnian ruddle, a red chalk found in Lemnos.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

He remembered that he was Lemnian and a seafarer.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John

On the supposed epoch of the extinction of the Lemnian fire in the time of Alexander, compare Buttmann, in the 'Museum der Alterhumswissenschaft', bd. i.,

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von