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; preceding; original; as, an old law; an old custom; an old promise. "The old schools of Greece." Milton. "The character of the old Ligurians." Addison.

ve manner; the exercise of rhetorical skill in oral discourse; eloquence. "The oratory of Greece and Rome." Milton. When a world of men Could not prevail with all their oratory. Shak.

Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.

Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece. -- n.

To pen; to confine. [R.] ended within the limits . . . of Greece. Udall.

A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist. Emerson.

Love of Greece.

A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.

Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.

defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak.

Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. As a philosophic school Pythagoreanism became extinct in Greece about the middle of the 4th century [B. C.]. Encyc. Brit.

t Delphi. Pythian games (Gr. Antiq.), one of the four great national festivals of ancient Greece, celebrated near Delphi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, afterward once in four.

The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language. -- n.

impaired by inaction. Must I rust in Egypt never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece Dryden.

rtility; later, one of the divinities of the lower world. His worship was introduced into Greece and Rome.

The shoe worn by actors of comedy in ancient Greece and Rome, -- used as a sumbol of comedy, of the comic drams, as distinguished from tragedy, which is symbolized by the buskin. Great Fletcher never treads in buskin here, Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear. Dryden.