Hellenical

comparative more Hellenical · superlative most Hellenical

1. archaicrareHellenic.

   It is therefore eaſy to conceive, that the rude language of the ancient Pelaſgi was very different from the later or Hellenical Greek.

   1785, Thomas Astle, On the Radical Letters of the Pelasgians and Their Derivatives, London: […] J. Nichols, […], page 14

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   If therefore the learned men above-mentioned mean only, that the Etruſcan language agrees with that firſt ſpoken in Greece, we readily ſubſcribe to their opinion; but, if they are to be underſtood of the later or Hellenical Greek, we muſt beg leave to diſſent from them. […] We ſay, more unmixed with ſtrangers than their neighbours; ſince the Etruſcans, in general, had had an intercourſe for ſome ages with the Romans and Hellenical Greeks, when Herodotus wrote his hiſtory.

   1748, George Sale et al., An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. […], volume XVI, London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and J[ohn] Osborn, […], pages 53 and 70

   The critical notes: these cannot be analysed; we will, however, offer a specimen or two.—Republic of Sparta, ch. xiii. 9. the text, [Greek text]. Leunclave translates by juveni quoque ac delecto ad pugnam ineundam permittitur ut, &c. M. Gail gives a learned note to prove the nonsense of this version; but, in fact, it requires no great hellenical skill to shew it must be wrong.

   1817 January 30, “Half-Yearly Retrospect of French Literature”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register, volume XLII, number 293, London: […] Richard Phillips, page 654, column 1

   The most illustrious of these was Lord Byron—a name not more esteemed in England, as that of one of the foremost of our poets, than it is in Greece, as that of one of the most devoted and enthusiastic of the “Franks,” to use a mediœval^([sic]) name, who, fired by the old Hellenical associations, sought to re-establish the ancient glory of a fallen race.

   1848 November 15, “[Literature.] The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin: James M‘Glashan.”, in Aberdeen Journal, and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, number 5262, Aberdeen, page 6, column 1

   IV. The Hellenical languages, the parent of which is the ancient Greek, from which comes the modern Greek, and, at an early period, the Latin.

   1850, Epitome of Geographical Knowledge, Ancient and Modern. […], Dublin: […] [T]he Commissioners of National Education in Ire land, […], pages 73–74

   The conclusion of the whole matter seems to be, that as the word κυριακός has not been found in any classical work, and occurs only twice in the New Testament, there is no possibility at present of being sure in what precise sense it is there used; though further research in classical or Hellenical writers may hereafter throw some light upon the question.

   1873, Robert Cox, Index to Passages of Scripture Adduced in Controversies Respecting the Sabbath and the Lord’s Day, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 82