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Others say that the Cimmerii, anciently known to the Greeks, were only a small part of the nation, who were driven out upon some quarrel among the
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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It was represented as the entrance by which both Odysseus and Aeneas descended to the infernal regions, and as the abode of the Cimmerii.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Cimmerii tendebat litora _Ponti_ '; see as well _In Eutr_ I 249' extra
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Cimmerii, who in early times settled to the north of the Black
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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From these parts then some supposed that these barbarians came against Italy, who were originally Cimmerii, but then not inappropriately called Cimbri.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Would not the Cimmerii have transported them from the period of their first traditional immigration from the
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Cimmerii have transported them from the period of their first traditional immigration from the East? and is not their Bel identical with the Babylonian deity?
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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They called themselves Kymrians or Kimrians, whence the Romans made Cimbrians, which recalls Cimmerii or Cimmerians, the name of a people whom the Greeks placed on the western bank of the Black Sea and in the Cimmerian peninsula, called to this day Crimea.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830
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-- Pertaining to the Cimmerii, or their country; extremely and perpetually dark.
The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor John Taylor 1616
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The Cimmerii were an ancient people of the land now called the Crimea, and their country being subject to heavy fogs, was fabled to be involved in deep and continual obscurity.
The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor John Taylor 1616
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