Gnossus
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Then all the peaks of Gnossus kindled red Beckoning afar unto the sinking sun, he thro' the vaporous west plunged to his bed, Sunk, and the day was done.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
CNOSSUS, Knossos, or Gnossus, an ancient city of Crete, on the left bank of the Caeratus, a small stream which falls into the sea on the north side of the island.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
But the fame of even Schliemann's discoveries has been somewhat dimmed by the excavations made since 1900 A.D. on the site of Gnossus, the ancient capital of the island of Crete.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
We decided on attacking a ruin on the acropolis of Gnossus, already partially exposed by the searches of local diggers for antiques.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II by William James Stillman
Spear-renowned Idomeneus commanded the Cretans, those who possessed Gnossus and well-walled Gortyna and Lyctos, and Miletus, and white Lycastus and Phæstus, and Rhytium, well-inhabited cities; and others who inhabited the hundred-towned Crete.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
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