Citations:Cœranus

English citations of Cœranus

Proper noun: optional spelling of Coeranus

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• 1820 C.E., William Mitford, The History of Greece, Luke Hansard & Sons; Volume IX, Chapter XLIX, § I, page #398:

  Cœranus of Berrœa and Philoxenus had been joint treasurers, attending the king’s person with the military chest.

• 1824 C.E., Thomas Taylor, The  Description of Greece, R. Priestly and Weale; Volume I, Chapter LXIII, page #118:

  But in the entrance to the temple of Bacchus there is a sepulchre of Astycratea and Mantes, who were the daughters of Polyidus, the son of Cœranus, the grandson of Abas, and the great‐grandson of Melampus.

• 1847 C.E., William Cowper and Robert Southly, The Iliad, Henry G. Bohn; book XVII, page #154:

  But Cœranus, charioteer of Meriones, observing his danger, drove instantly to his aid.

• 1892 C.E., Georg Ebers and Clara Bell, A Thorny Path, D. Appleton and Company; Chapter XV, page #252:

  Cœranus then obeyed a sign from Berenike, who wished to know whether he would be answerable for introducing this rarely pretty girl, who had placed herself under their protection—and whom she, for her part, meant to protect—to a courtier of whom she knew nothing but that he was a writer of taste.

  The question seemed to amuse Cœranus, but, seeing that his sister‐in‐law was very much in earnest, he dropped his flippant tone and admitted that Philostratus, as a young man, had been one of the last with whom he would trust a girl.

• 1905 C.E., Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Battle of Arbela, in The Great Events by Famous Historians, The National Alumni; Volume II, page #159:

  The Thracian infantry of Sitalces were placed there, and Cœranus’ regiment of the cavalry of the Greek allies, and Agathon’s troops of the Odrysian irregular horse.