Seleucid Definition

sĭ-lo͝osĭd
seleucidae, seleucids
adjective
Of or relating to a Hellenistic dynasty founded by Seleucus I after the death of Alexander the Great. It ruled much of Asia Minor from 312 to 64 bc .
American Heritage
Designating or of this dynasty.
Webster's New World
noun
A member of a dynasty founded by Seleucus I and ruling (312-364? b.c.) over S Asia Minor & the region between the Mediterranean Sea & the Indus River.
Webster's New World
A member or subject of this dynasty.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Seleucid

Noun

Singular:
Seleucid
Plural:
seleucidae, seleucids

Seleucid Sentence Examples

  • Samsat itself represents the ancient Samosata, the capital of the Seleucid kings of Commagene (Kuinukh of the Assyrian inscriptions), and here the Persian Royal Road from Sardis to Susa is supposed to have crossed the river.

  • He was the real founder of the Parthian empire, which was of very limited extent until the final decay of the Seleucid empire, occasioned by the Roman intrigues after the death of Antiochus IV.

  • Whether the master of the provinces, in which there were Jews, be an Alexander, a Ptolemy, a Seleucid or a Roman, the force by which he rules is the force of Greek culture.

  • The Jewish aristocracy became peers of the Seleucid kingdom.

  • Two Seleucid princes, children of Soter's sister Selene, appeared in Rome in 73 to urge their claim to the Ptolemaic throne.

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