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  • Except that sea is an English term, not the thalassa that Plato knew, so what makes it a more natural word for the waters of the ocean than the Greek or, for that matter, the Arabic al bahr or the French la mer, or indeed any other of the hundreds of terms for the sea that exist among the myriad languages spoken around the globe?

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Except that sea is an English term, not the thalassa that Plato knew, so what makes it a more natural word for the waters of the ocean than the Greek or, for that matter, the Arabic al bahr or the French la mer, or indeed any other of the hundreds of terms for the sea that exist among the myriad languages spoken around the globe?

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Double seaview rooms start at www. thalassa.com.cy

    Aphrodite Casts Her Love Spell 2010

  • Increasingly Displaced: Thalassa, thalassa skip to main

    Thalassa, thalassa Ra 2009

  • Smith's _Bible Dictionary_ discusses learnedly the name of this curious gulf, written [Greek: ae eruthra thalassa] in the Septuagint.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • : [Greek: pasa de gaia sethen plaeres kai pasa thalassa] and Philo, De V.Mos. ii.

    Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927

  • : [Greek: pasa de gaia sethen plaeres kai pasa thalassa] and Philo, De V.Mos. ii.

    Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914

  • 'I marked this text when all my menfolk were slain: [Greek: pleiê men gar gaia, pleiê de thalassa] so I have laughed ever since.'

    Privy Seal His Last Venture Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • {Pasa thalassa thalassa}, "everywhere the sea is the sea," wails Aristagoras, [31] past the perilous Cyclades and the foaming narrows of the Hellespont only to be drowned in a little Locrian harbour; the very sound of the words echoes the heavy wash of blind waves and the hissing of eternal foam.

    Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

  • (Thettaly, forsooth!), _thalassa_ is now _mare clausum_ to me; he will not leave me a poor garden-herb like _seutlion_, I have never a

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

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