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Date "BISTONIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references)

Specialty Definition: BISTONIANS

DomainDefinition
Literature1: 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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