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  • The region thus engulfed was beyond Europe, Asia, and Lybia, beyond the columns of Hercules, where those powerful people, the Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged.

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • Consequently, in recognition of this benefaction, painters and sculptors represent him as holding up the firmament, and the Atlantides, his daughters, whom we call "Vergiliae" and the Greeks [Greek: Pleiades], are consecrated in the firmament among the constellations.

    The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio

  • At the time of the Celtic invasion Western Europe and Northern Africa were occupied by the race of the Atlantides, while the Mongolians, including also the Lapps,

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • Atlantides; which latter, by the way, form also our own aborigines.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

  • These wander-periods were the legendary migration of the Atlantides across north Africa, the migration of the Aryans into India and Persia; the migration of the

    Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado Various

  • 'The seven daughters of Atlas, Mr. Rogers, if I remember correctly, called therefore the Atlantides.

    A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • As he beheld their filmy draperies that swayed phantom-like among the crags overhead, he understood those pagan minds of olden days for whom such wavering exhalations were none other than sea-nymphs, Atlantides, offspring of some mild-eyed god of Ocean rising to greet their playfellows, the Oreads, on the hills.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought?

    The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI. 1909

  • Atlantides, lived, against whom the first wars of ancient Greeks were waged.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

  • [* Without entering here into any discussion respecting the existence of the Atlantis, I may cite the opinion of Diodorus Siculus, according to whom the Atlantides were ignorant of the use of corn, because they were separated from the rest of mankind before these gramina were cultivated.]

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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