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Definition of Diotas
1. diota [n] - See also: diota
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diotas
Literary usage of Diotas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"Why these cities should have enjoyed a monopoly in the manufacture of diotas, or
at least why they alone should have chosen to stamp their productions with ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1850)
"... as Casaubon explains, such ordinary diotas as those of which the handles are
before us.159 To this intercourse with Egypt may be partly attributed the ..."
3. Syrian Stone-lore by Claude Reignier Conder (1886)
"... as heads of bulls and eagles; and the forms of the bronze diotas represented
on the pictures are, in some cases, very elegant. ..."
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