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Think of those two entering on that vast undertaking by themselves: sailing away from their country to the distant Euxine [Footnote: See _Euxine_ in Notes.] -- that sea unknown in those days to the Greeks, or known only to the
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895
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His description of the Euxine is ingeniously formed of all the fragments of the original, and of all the Greeks and Latins whom
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Mithridates harbored big plans for his kingdom, located in what is now Turkey, on the southeastern shores of what is now called the Black Sea then called the Euxine, not far from what is now the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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Mithridates harbored big plans for his kingdom, located in what is now Turkey, on the southeastern shores of what is now called the Black Sea then called the Euxine, not far from what is now the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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Mithridates harbored big plans for his kingdom, located in what is now Turkey, on the southeastern shores of what is now called the Black Sea then called the Euxine, not far from what is now the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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Mithridates harbored big plans for his kingdom, located in what is now Turkey, on the southeastern shores of what is now called the Black Sea then called the Euxine, not far from what is now the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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America are collected, as the Caspian, the Sea of Azof, and the Euxine are the rain basins of Europe and of Asia, and which spreads its waters over breadths of land, great or small, as its shores are steep or otherwise.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Now the distance from one of the Pillars of Heracles to the other, if one goes along the shore and does not pass around the Ionian Gulf and the sea called the Euxine but crosses from Chalcedon [6] to Byzantium and from Dryous [7] to the opposite mainland, [8] is a journey of two hundred and eighty-five days for an unencumbered traveller.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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Propontis and the Euxine is a point whereon different opinions may be entertained.
History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857
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The Euxine is a noble sea to look upon, and the port of Constantinople the most beautiful of harbours, and yet I cannot but think that the twenty sail of the line, some of one hundred and forty guns, rendered it more “poetical” by day in the sun, and by night perhaps still more, for the Turks illuminate their vessels of war in a manner the most picturesque, and yet all this is artificial.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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