Mix-Hellene
(mɪkshɛˈliːn)
[ad. Gr. µιξέλλην, f. µιξ(ο)- mixo- + Ἕλλην Hellene.]
A person of mixed Greek and barbarian blood.
| 1856 Grote Greece ii. xcviii. XII. 645 Taking into pay a semi-Hellenic population in their neighbourhood (Mix-Hellenes, like the Liby-Phenicians in Africa). 1875 Lowell Spenser Pr. Wks. 1890 IV. 286 The descendants of the earlier English settlers had degenerated as much as the Mix-Hellenes who disgusted the Latin poet. |