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Definition of Thraco-phrygian
1. Noun. An extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian.
Specialized synonyms: Thracian, Phrygian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thraco-phrygian
Literary usage of Thraco-phrygian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The melancholy history of both must have its origin in the character of the
Thraco-Phrygian people : the divine gift brings sorrow а, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"1 Of equal importance for the private religion of Greece were the Orphic mystic
societies, bearing a Thraco-Phrygian tradition into Greece, and associated ..."
3. The Story of Assyria from the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1889)
"At the point of history we have reached, the Armenian division of the Thraco-Phrygian
race had as yet arrived no further than the western outskirts of the ..."
4. After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the by Franz Valery Marie Cumont (1922)
"Among the mysteries propagated in the West, the most ancient were those of the
Thraco-Phrygian gods, Dionysos and Saba- zios, who were indeed looked upon as ..."
5. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"The melancholy history of both must have its origin in the character of the
Thraco-Phrygian people: the divine gift brings sorrow as well as power. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"... Its doctrines are founded on two. elements: the Thraco-Phrygian religion of
Dionysus with its enthusiastic orgies, its mysteries and iu purifications, ..."
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