How do you use Lydians in a sentence? See 6 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Lydians meaning
plural of Lydian
Using Lydians
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Lydian
- In the example corpus, lydians often appears in combinations such as: the lydians.
Context around Lydians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lydians
- In this selection, "lydians" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, carians stand out and add context to how "lydians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include forcing the lydians to retreat and of the lydians. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lydians" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lydians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Carians, Lydians and Legels used it as a settlement. (10 words)
The Battle of Pteria resulted in a stalemate, forcing the Lydians to retreat to their capital city of Sardis. (19 words)
However, Dionysius of Halicarnassus was skeptical of this story, indicating that the Etruscan language and customs were known to be totally dissimilar to those of the Lydians. (27 words)
Therefore, it is thought that the Aeginetes, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians (c. 630 BC), might have been the ones to introduce coinage to the Western world. (42 words)
Histories, I, 94. It is not known, however, whether Herodotus meant that the Lydians were the first to use coins of pure gold and pure silver or the first precious metal coins in general. (34 words)
Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius 1.25 tells us that Thales gained fame as a counselor when he advised the Milesians not to engage in a symmachia, a "fighting together", with the Lydians. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
The Carians, Lydians and Legels used it as a settlement.
Diogenes Laërtius Diogenes Laërtius 1.25 tells us that Thales gained fame as a counselor when he advised the Milesians not to engage in a symmachia, a "fighting together", with the Lydians.
Histories, I, 94. It is not known, however, whether Herodotus meant that the Lydians were the first to use coins of pure gold and pure silver or the first precious metal coins in general.
However, Dionysius of Halicarnassus was skeptical of this story, indicating that the Etruscan language and customs were known to be totally dissimilar to those of the Lydians.
The Battle of Pteria resulted in a stalemate, forcing the Lydians to retreat to their capital city of Sardis.
Therefore, it is thought that the Aeginetes, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians (c. 630 BC), might have been the ones to introduce coinage to the Western world.
Common combinations with lydians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: