Hellespont
noun
ancient name of the Dardanelles.
Hellespontine
-
a word derived from
Hellespont.
Example Sentences
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He had inherited most of the deceased's property, among the articles of which was the Hellespontine Chersonese, which had come I know not how into the possession of Agrippa.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster
Both the Hellespontine and the Baian road perished in the lifetime of their founders; while the Simplon still attests the more sublime and practical genius of Napoleon.
From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne
Now the chief temple at Gergis was that of Apollo,957 and in the same town there was an ancient Sibylline oracle, known by the name of the Hellespontine or Mermessian.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Through a Hellespontine Greek, the same favourable conditions were again offered to them, but were again refused.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
With joy he reached the bridge that spanned the Hellespontine main.
From Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
