"Magnesian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the dynasty of the "White Sheep," at the close of the fourteenth century. Hammer-Purgstall (Hist. de l'Emp. Ottoman, iii. 151) gives sang-sue, "blood-sucker," as the equivalent of Youlouk, which should, however, be interpreted "smooth-face." Of the Magnesian Kara Osman Oglou ("Black Osman-son"), Dallaway (Constantinople Ancient and Modern, 1797, p. 190) writes, "He is the most powerful and opulent dere bey ('lord of the valley'), or feudal tenant, in the empire, and, though inferior to the pashas in rank, ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron
... taken from a tragedy of SOPHOCLES—the Electra—translated by Bulwer. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, had gained five victories on the first day of the trial; and on the second, of which the account is here given, he starts with nine competitors—an Achaean, a Spartan, two Libyans, an AEtolian, a Magnesian; an AE'ni-an, an Athenian, and a Boeotian —and meets his death in the moment ...
— Mosaics of Grecian History • Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Willson |
