Amphitryonicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

Amphitryonic (comparative more Amphitryonic, superlative most Amphitryonic)

1. Of or relating to the mythological Amphitryon, the subject of numerous comedies.
   • 1920, The Weekly Review‎, page 483:

     [...] the Amphitryonic plays.

   • 1939, Collection Latomus‎, page 135:

     So much is obvious, perhaps, to anyone who has the time to wade through the Amphitryonic literature. What most critics have failed to point out, however, is that, while the process involved in the Jovian fall may begin, in extant literature, at any rate with Plautus' Amphitryon, it continues in later versions of the myth as a result of the quite constant subjection of that deity to comic parody and pretense in other plays of Plautus, and especially in the Casina, a play in which Jupiter, Juno, Mercury, and a luscious objet d'amour appear on a somewhat less than divine level.

2. Alternative letter-case form of amphitryonic (“characteristic of an amphitryon or host”)
   • 1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University, page 246:

     Our host, elated by a double triumph, for the College Declamations were just declared, and he had gained one of the Latin ones, had exhausted all his Amphitryonic resources to do justice to the party and the occasion. Turkey-legs devilled in wine, curried oysters, lobser au gratin (the Trinity cook used to call it lobster grating, just as he had converted poulet grillé into pulled and grilled fowl), and other appetizing condiments, graced the board, and that rare luxury in England, good Madeira, flowed abundantly.