Definitions for Longinus

Longinus Lon·gi·nus

Spelling: [lon-jahy-nuh s]
IPA: /lɒnˈdʒaɪ nəs/

Longinus is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in Longinus (gilnnosu).

Definitions for Longinus

noun

  1. Dionysius Cassius [kash-uh s] /ˈkæʃ əs/ (Show IPA), a.d. 213?–273, Greek philosopher and rhetorician.

Examples for Longinus

Longinus speaks with transport of this beautiful fragment of antiquity.

Twelve lines of the poem are preserved in Tzetzes and Longinus.

Aristotle and Longinus are better understood by him than Littleton or Coke.

Longinus, however, does not acknowledge any faculty of assent.

This saying is admirable, says Longinus, from a like principle.

Save a trifle of stiffness, the speech might have served Longinus.

Is not this sublime and (according to Longinus) fierce love for one of her own sex?

Longinus himself was the nephew and heir of Fronto, a Syrian rhetorician of Emesa.

Longinus cites her love-ode as a specimen of poetical sublimity.

Plotinos said, "Longinus is a literary man, but not a philosopher."

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