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See also:RHIGAS, See also:CONSTANTINE , known as Rhigas of Velestinos (Pherae), or Rhigas Pheraios (176o-1798), See also:Greek patriot and poet, was See also:born at Velestinos, and was educated at Zagora and at See also:Constantinople, where he became secretary to See also:Alexander See also:Ypsilanti. In 1786 he entered the service of See also:Nicholas Mavrogenes, See also:hospodar of Wallachia, at See also:Bucharest, and when See also:war See also:broke out between See also:Turkey and See also:Russia in 1787 he was charged with the inspection of the troops at See also:Craiova. Here he entered into See also:close and friendly relations with a See also:Turkish officer named See also:Osman Passvan-Oglou (1758-1807), afterwards the famous See also:governor of Widin, whose See also:life he saved from the vengeance of Mavrogenes. After the See also:death of his See also:patron Rhigas returned to Bucharest to serve for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as interpreter at the See also:French Consulate. At this time he wrote the famous Greek version of the Marseillaise, well known in See also:Byron's See also:paraphrase as " sons of the Greeks, arise." He was the founder of the Hetaireia, a society formed to organize Greek patriotic sentiment and to provide the Greeks with arms and See also:money. Believing that the See also:influence of the French Revolution would spread to the Near See also:East, he betook himself to See also:Vienna to organize the See also:movement among the exiled Greeks and their See also:foreign supporters in 1793, or possibly earlier. He published in Vienna many Greek See also:translations of foreign See also:works, and presently founded a Greek See also:press there, but his See also:chief See also:glory was the collection of See also:national songs which, passed from See also:hand to hand in MS., roused patriotic See also:enthusiasm throughout See also:Greece. They were only printed posthumously at See also:Jassy in 1814. While at Vienna Rhigas entered into communication with See also:Bonaparte, to whom he sent a See also:snuff-See also:box made of the See also:root of a See also:laurel See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree taken from the See also:temple of See also:Apollo, and eventually he set out with a view to See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting the See also:general of the See also:army of See also:Italy in See also:Venice. But before leaving Vienna he forwarded papers, amongst which is said to have been his See also:correspondence
with Bonaparte, to a compatriot at See also:Istria. The papers were betrayed by Demetrios Oikonomos Kozanites into the hands of the See also:Austrian See also:government, and Rhigas was arrested at See also:Trieste and handed over with his accomplices to the Turkish authorities at See also:Belgrade. Immediately on See also:arrest he attempted See also:suicide. His Turkish friend, Passvan-Oglou, sought to secure his See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape, and the government apparently consented to See also:release him on the See also:payment of a See also:ransom of about 6000; but meanwhile the Turkish See also:pasha commanding at Belgrade had taken the See also:law into his own hands. Rhigas's five companions were secretly drowned, but he himself offered so violent a resistance that he was shot by two Turkish soldiers. His last words are reported as being: " I have sown a See also:rich See also:seed; the See also:hour is coming when my See also:country will reap its glorious fruits." Rhigas, See also:writing in the popular See also:dialect instead of in classical Greek, aroused the patriotic fervour of his contemporaries and• his poems were a serious See also:factor in the awakening of See also:modern Greece.
See Rizos Neronlos, Histoire de la revolution grecgue (See also:Paris, 1829) ; I. C. Bolanachi, Hommes See also:illustres de la Grece moderne (Paris, 1875) ; and Mrs E. M. Edmonds, Rhigas Pheraios (See also:London, 1890).
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