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Rhodian
/ ˈrəʊdɪən /
adjective
- of or relating to the island of Rhodes
noun
- a native or inhabitant of Rhodes
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Philip gave Heracleides a kind of problem to work out,—how to circumvent and destroy the Rhodian fleet.
Of the Rhodian fleet two quinqueremes and a trireme were destroyed, but no ship was taken.
Meanwhile the Athenian and Rhodian envoys got hold of the consul and tried by ingenious arguments to mollify his anger.
The Rhodian envoys, however, were much gratified by the spirit shown by the Senate, and said that they would ask nothing more.
A peristyle that has one such higher colonnade is called a Rhodian peristyle.
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