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English
Proper noun
Crœsus
- Alternative spelling of Croesus
- 1692: Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) and Meric Caſaubon , The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Roman Emperor, Concerning Himſelf, book X, page 205, § XXVII (5th edition; first published in 1634)
- XXVII. Ever to mind and conſider with thy ſelf, how all things that now are, have been heretofore much after the ſame ſort, and after the ſame faſhion that now they are: and ſo to think of thoſe things which ſhall be hereafter alſo. Moreover, whole dramata, and uniform ſcenes, as many as either in thine own experience thou haſt known, or by reading of ancient Hiſtories; (as the whole Court of Adrianus, the whole Court of Antoninus Pius, the whole Court of Philippus, that of Alexander, that of Crœſus:) to ſet them all before thine eyes. For thou ſhalt find that they are all but after one ſort and faſhion: onely that the actours were others.
Noun
Crœsus (plural Crœsuses or Crœsi)
- Obsolete form of Croesus.
Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
Crœsus c
- Archaic spelling of krösus (“rich person”).
1897–1898, Mattis Dahl, Brott och straff. Svensk kriminalroman., page 1061:Och hvem är väl denne Crœsus, som kan gifva sin advokat ett så kolossalt honorarium ? sporde en af maskerna.- And who is this Croesus, who can give his lawyer such a colossal honorarium? asked one of the masks.