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Illyrian

noun

A minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast.

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"Illyrian" Quotes from Famous Books

... hundred sheep and two for every troop of fifty horses.[255] It was sometimes found convenient that they should be accompanied by their women who prepared their meals—women of robust types like the Illyrian dames to whom child-birth was a mere incident in the daily toils.[256] Such a life of freedom had its attractions for the slave, but it had its drawbacks too. The landowner who preferred pasturage to tillage, saved his capital, not only by ...

— A History of Rome, Vol 1 - During the late Republic and early Principate • A H.J. Greenidge

... moment, he made much ampler discoveries than were expected of him; the other accomplices were secured: and Commodus was delivered from the uplifted daggers of those who had sought him by months of patient wanderings, pursued through all the depths of the Illyrian forests, and the difficulties of the Alpine passes. It is not easy to find words of admiration commensurate to the energetic hardihood of a slave—who, by way of answer and reprisal to an edict summarily consigning ...

— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education

Words linked to "Illyrian" : Indo-European, Indo-Hittite, Indo-European language