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Symplegades
[ sim-pleg-uh-deez ]
plural noun
, Classical Mythology.
- a pair of rocky islands, at the entrance to the Black Sea, that often clashed together: Athena helped the Argonauts navigate them, after which they became fixed.
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But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.
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After the miraculous passage of the Argo, the Symplegades became permanently united, and attached to the bottom of the sea.
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The escape of the Argo fulfilled this decree, and the Symplegades have ever since remained immovable.
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Euripides, Medea, verse 2, gives them the title of Symplegades.
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The first papers passed him by two mountains, which, like the symplegades, threatened to meet and crush him in their embrace.
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