Idaean
[ ahy-dee-uhn ]
/ aɪˈdi ən /
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adjective
of, pertaining to, associated with, or inhabiting Mount Ida in Asia Minor or Crete.
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How to use Idaean in a sentence
That the Idaean ideal was Athene is implied by the adjective ethnic.
Archaic England|Harold BayleyThey were said to have been instituted by the Idaean Heracles, to commemorate his victory over his four brothers in a foot-race.
We are thy fleet, Idaean pines from the holy hill, now nymphs of the sea.
The Aeneid of Virgil|VirgilTheir names and number were as indistinct even to the ancients as those of the Curetes and Idaean Dactyli.