OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32134

Cimmerian

/sɪˈmɪəɹ.ɪ.ən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cimerio
Any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.
On their mysterious shores were the improbable homes of impossible peoples. The Great Sea, the Broad Sea, the Boundless Sea; the Ethiopians, "dwelling far away, the most distant of…
The city, there, of the Cimmerians stands With clouds and darkness veil’d, on whom the sun Deigns not to look with his beam-darting eye,
cimerio
One of the Cimmerii, ancient equestrian nomads of Indo-European origin.
Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian Doth make your honour of his body's hue, Spotted, detested, and abominable.
The Phrygian power was broken in the 9th or 8th century B.C. by the Cimmerians, who entered Asia Minor through Armenia
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