Lycia : a hilly coastal region of Caria (q.v.). Sarpedon led the Lycians in Trojan War.
... Always like waves that swallow the shingles, lapsing, returning, Tide of the battle, race of the onset relentlessly thundered Over the Phrygian corn-fields. Trojan wrestled with Argive, Caria, Lycia, Thrace and the war-lord mighty Achaia Joined in the clasp of the fight. Death, panic and wounds and disaster, Glory of conquest and glory of fall, and the empty hearth-side, Weeping and fortitude... gifts; their blessings help the Achaians. Memnon came, but he sleeps, and the faces swart of his nation Page 349 Darken no more like a cloud over thunder and surge of the onset. Wearily Lycia fights; far fled are the Carian levies. Thrace retreats to her plains preferring the whistle of stormwinds Or on the banks of the Strymon to wheel in her Orphean measure, Not in the revel of swords... the Phthian? Gods, it is said, have decided your doom. Are you less in your greatness? Are you not gods to reverse their decrees or unshaken to suffer? Memnon is dead and the Carians leave you? Lycia lingers? But from the streams of my East I have come to you, Penthesilea." "Virgin of Asia," answered Talthybius, "doom of a nation Brought thee to Troy and her haters Olympian shielded thy coming ...
... Always like waves that swallow the shingles, lapsing, returning, Tide of the battle, race of the onset relentlessly thundered Over the Phrygian corn-fields. Trojan wrestled with Argive, Caria, Lycia, Thrace and the war-lord mighty Achaia Joined in the clasp of the fight. Death, panic and wounds and disaster, Glory of conquest and glory of fall, and the empty hearth-side, Weeping and fortitude ...
... Kumāradevī, see Kumāradevī Lichchhavi Lichchhavis, 112, 114, 199, 206-7, 225, 441, 442, 596 Lohara dynasty of Kāshmir, 479 Loka-vigraha, 491-2 Looda, 269, 278 Luders, Prof, 454 Lycias, 586 Lydia, 55, 56, 465, 466, 482, 484 Macaulay, Lord, 57 McCrindle, J., 118, 164-7, 172, Page 631 245, 375, 419, 426, 435, 455 ...
... second century B.C. by Sircar 2 not because of palaeography but because the king Amtalikita (the Greek Antialcidas), whose ambassador Heliodorus was, has to be dated in relation to the Indo-Greek kings Lycias and Heliocles on the one hand and on the other the Indian king Kautsiputra Bhāgabhadra to whose court Heliodorus came. From Goyal's own book we can elicit an example of palaeography's unt ...
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