| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "BISTONIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: With milk their bloody banquets they allay. 2: "So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, 3: Bistonians The Thracians; so called from Biston, son of Mars, who built Bistonia on the Lake Bistonis. 4: Exult and revel on the Thracian plain; 5: On some abandoned savage flercely fly, 6: Or from the lion rend his panting prey; 7: Seize, tear, devour, and think it luxury." 8: Pitt: Statius, Book ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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