Cydnus
Americannoun
noun
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In 41 BCE, Mark Antony landed in Tarsus, a port city in Cilicia at the mouth of the Cydnus River.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
As Cleopatra sailed on the Cydnus, Mark Antony’s audience deserted him.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
Antioch was besieged and the other cities, past which the Halys, the Cydnus, the Orontes, the Euphrates flow.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
She then calls for her diadem, her robes of state, and attires herself as if "again for Cydnus, to meet Mark Antony."
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
The province of Cilicia, which exults in the river Cydnus, is ornamented by Tarsus, a city of great magnificence.
From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke
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