Word Finder - attic

definition

The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

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We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.

She is prominent as the promoter of agriculture in Attic legend.

There are some curtains and rugs in the attic - I'm sure you've already found them.

Feel free to get anything you want out of the attic.

I take things from my attic and my garage and sell them to people who value them more than I do.

Solon also ordered that the tombs of the heroes should be treated with the greatest respect, and Cleisthenes sought to create a pan-Athenian enthusiasm by calling his new tribes after Attic heroes and setting up their statues in the Agora.

At the end of the hall, a steep set of stairs led to the attic.

The Ionic order, as used in this temple, is of the most ornate Attic type.

There is a chest of drawers and a three-quarter bed in the attic.

I felt such a strong urge to dress up in this, like a little girl trying to be someone she isn't—fishing in an attic trunk.

Such hints as we have, while they set before us, just as at Rome, a state of things in which small landed proprietors are burthened with debt, also set before us the Attic demos as, largely at least, a body of various origins which had grown up in the city.

In the Minoan epoch Athens is proved by the archaeological remains to have been a petty kingdom scarcely more important than many other Attic communities, yet enjoying a more unbroken course of development than the leading states of that period.

But a new idea is introduced by the Attic Oresteia.

On the whole it seems most likely that, while the kernel of the Roman plebs was rural or belonged to the small towns admitted to the Roman franchise, the Attic demos, largely at least, though doubtless not wholly, arose out of the mixed settlers who had come together in the city, answering to the p rotKot of later times.

She carried the mug with her down the street to a store that smelled like an attic.

But from such glimpses of early Attic history as we can get the union of the Attic towns would seem to have been completed before the constitutional struggle began.

A circular building identified (bv Svoronos) as the Attic mint in the Peloponnesian War, was cleared, and a fine archaic relief of an ephebe crowning himself was discovered.

Theseus now carried out a political revolution in Attica by abolishing the semi-independent powers of the separate townships and concentrating those powers at Athens, and he instituted the festival of the Panathenaea,3 as a symbol of the unity of the Attic race.

When the Persian war was over the Delphic oracle bade the Athenians fetch the bones of Theseus from Scyrus, and' lay them in Attic earth.

But although he goes to the Scriptures, and tastes the mystical spirit of the medieval saints, the Christ of his conception has traits that seem borrowed from Socrates and from the heroes of Attic tragedy, who suffer much, and yet smile gently on a destiny to which they were reconciled.

Midas with the ass's ears was a frequent subject of the Attic satyr-drama.

It's an attic black-figure kylix, with commentary.

So long as she lived, her small salon in the attic storey of the great house was a centre of attraction for many of the most illustrious personages in Europe.

In 469 B.C. it was conquered by the Athenians under Cimon,- and it was probably about this time that the legends arose which connect it with the Attic hero Theseus, who was said to have been treacherously slain and buried there.

The style of Diphilus was simple and natural, and his language on the whole good Attic; he paid great attention to versification, and was supposed to have invented a peculiar kind of metre.

On the other hand, no doubt Athens in 403 B.C. officially adopted the Ionic alphabet and gave up the old Attic alphabet.

On the contrary, Plato and other Attic writers use the word to include interpreters and admirers - in short, the whole " spiritual kindred " - of Homer.

Now in Homer there are upwards of 80 second aorists (not reckoning aorists of " Verbs in µc," such as i'ar,Y, i,3rpv), whereas in all Attic prose not more than 30 are found.

In Attic poets, it is true, the number of such aorists is much larger than in prose.

Of the poetical aorists in Attic the larger part are also Homeric. Others are not really Attic at all, but borrowed from earlier Aeolic and Doric poetry.

These constitute a distinct formation, generally with a " causative " meaning; the solitary Attic specimen is riyayov.

In fact, however, the Homeric subjunctive is almost quite " regular," though the rule which it obeys is a different one from the Attic. It may be summed up by saying that the subjunctive takes or when the indicative has o or and not otherwise.

Again, " with " is in Homer auv (with the dative), in Attic prose perec with the genitive.

Here Attic poetry is intermediate; the use of auv is retained as a piece of poetical tradition.

The points that have been mentioned, to which many others might be added, make it clear that the Homeric and Attic dialects are separated by differences which affect the whole structure of the language, and require a considerable time for their development.

There are doubtless many Homeric forms which were unknown to the later Ionic and Attic, and which are found in Aeolic or other dialects.

The nonDorian dialects, Ionic, Attic and the various forms of Aeolic, are regarded as relatively closely akin, and go by the common name " Achaean."

The remains of a temple, devastated in ancient times (possibly by Dionysius of Syracuse in 384 B.C.), were also discovered, with fragments of Attic vases of the 5th century B.C., which had served as ex votos in it.

The Greek colonists traced their descent, at Curium, from Argos; at Lapathus, from Laconia; at Paphos, from Arcadia; at Salamis, from the Attic island of that name; and at Soli, also from Attica.

Laos and F ra (Davus, Geta) were common as names of slaves in Attic comedy and in the adaptations of Plautus and Terence.

She retrieved two boxes from the attic and enlisted help from Destiny in setting up and decorating the tree in the dining room.

The condition of the book itself is terrible, and the pages smell like something out of my grandmother's attic.

She's given him an indoor job, fixing pesky cupboard shelves in an attic, the lucky bleeder.

Recently rewired thoughout to modern standards and a stunning attic conversion with en-suite.

This two-storey building with attic dormers is brick with a Welsh slate roof.

Toys in the Attic captured the essence of the newly invigorated Aerosmith.

From the hallway there is the access to the attic room, only partially liveable.

From the passage there is access to the not liveable attic very useful as storage.

Character Of The Newer Attic Comedy The pieces are of tiresome monotony.

Attic story to gable bay carried on timber corbel brackets above 1st floor oriel window also carried on timber brackets.

By strange coincidence the very next day we found a shard of attic ware.