Sargon

[ sahr-gon ]

noun

1. flourished c2300 b.c., Mesopotamian ruler: founder of Akkadian kingdom.

Example Sentences

Sargon's lowering brow was black as night, and to the vociferous greetings of his countrymen he returned but a silent scowl.

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Sargon nodded, and his white teeth gleamed between the curls of his jetty beard.

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Those of his friends who were near enough to observe Sargon's face hardly recognised him.

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The story of his being exposed in an ark of bulrushes is a myth probably derived from the similar and much earlier myth of Sargon.

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Sargon erected an image of himself by the shore of the sea, and seems even to have received tribute from Cyprus.

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