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Eidolon


Ei-do′lon

,
Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] image. See
Idol
.]
An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2024


eidôlon

eidôlon

See also: eidolon

English

Noun

eidôlon (plural eidôla or eidôlons)

  1. Alternative spelling of eidolon
    • 1853, George Grote, History of Greece, page #485:
      So in regard to the legends of Greece, — Troy, Thêbes, the Argonauts, the Boar of Kalydôn, Hêraklês, Thêseus, Œdipus, — the conviction still holds in men’s minds, that there must be something true at the bottom ; and many readers of this work may be displeased, I fear, not to see conjured up before them the Eidôlon of an authentic history, even though the vital spark of evidence be altogether wanting.