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  • Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where

    Walden 2004

  • And when they had arrived at Naxos, coming against it from the Icarian Sea (for it was against Naxos first that the Persians intended to make expedition, remembering the former events), the Naxians departed forthwith fleeing to the mountains, and did not await their attack; but the Persians made slaves of those of them whom they caught and set fire to both the temples and the town.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • So they flew over the sea toward Sicily; but Icarus flew too near the sun; and the wax of his wings was melted, and he fell into the Icarian Sea.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name, the Icarian Sea.

    Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year 1923

  • Next is the Myrtoan Sea and the Icarian Sea, in which are also the Cyclades.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • Egyptian Seas: and, thereafter, above the Icarian Sea, the AEgean Sea pours itself out.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • And the sea in which poor Icarus was drowned was called forever afterward by his name, the Icarian Sea.

    Old Greek Stories James Baldwin 1883

  • They surged to and fro like the waves of the Icarian Sea, when the east and south winds break from heaven's clouds to lash them; or as when the west wind sweeps over a field of corn and the ears bow beneath the blast, even so were they swayed as they flew with loud cries towards the ships, and the dust from under their feet rose heavenward.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • -- Patmos, now Patmo or Palmosa, one of the Sporades, a little rocky island in the Icarian Sea, S. - W. of

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

  • Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where "still the shore" a "brave attempt resounds."

    Walden~ Chapter 09 (historical) 1854

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