cimmerian
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John Milius's 1982 fantasy epic Conan the Barbarian cast the former Mr Olympia as Robert E Howard's unstoppable Cimmerian warrior.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
Schwarzenegger is almost as much of a self-made man as the great Cimmerian himself.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013
He is stoic about the deaths of friends and relatives and accepts as "part of the game" the high possibility that he may be crushed, burned, suffocated or drowned in his own Cimmerian tomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he even had time to yell, he dropped like a rock into the Cimmerian bowels of the glacier.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
That in this passage, where Madys is mentioned a second time with the epithet: the Cimmerian, Σκύθης must be read instead of Madys, as Madys has been mentioned just before, is self-evident.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
