Definition of Demetrius i

1. Noun. Son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC).

Exact synonyms: Demetrius, Demetrius Poliorcetes
Generic synonyms: Macedonian, Full General, General

Lexicographical Neighbors of Demetrius I

Delphinium ajacis
Delphinus
Delphinus delphis
Dels
Delta
Deltasone
Deluge
Demarquay's symptom
Dematiaceae
Demavend
Demerara
Demeraras
Demerol
Demeter
Demetrius
Demetrius I
Demetrius Poliorcetes
Demi
Demir Hisar
Demir Kapija
Demiurge
Democrat
Democratic
Democratic-Republican Party
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Democratic Party
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic Republic of East Timor
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Literary usage of Demetrius i

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shakespeare's Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1870)
"DEMETRIUS. I say, I love thee more than he can do. LYSANDER. If thou say so, ... HELENA. Yes, 'sooth ; and so do you. LYSANDER. Demetrius, I will keep ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Meanwhile demetrius i. had escaped from Rome, seized the throne, and had both Eupator and Lysias beheaded. demetrius i. Soter (162-150), son of Seleucus IV. ..."

3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... coins of their predecessors ; among these, as predecessors on the Bactrian throne, are Antiochus Nicator, Diodotus-Soter, Euthydemus Deus. demetrius i ..."

4. Catalogue of Greek Coins by British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals, Percy Gardner, Reginald Stuart Poole (1878)
"demetrius i., Head of, 45 sqq., 111. demetrius i. and Laodice, Heads of, ... Seleucus I., 6 ; Seleucus IV., 33 ; Antiochus IV. or V., 43 ; demetrius i., 49. ..."

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