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We read of the Persian Sibyl, the Libyan, the Delphic, the Erythræan, the Hellespontine, the Phrygian, and the Tiburtine.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh

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 Müller, Karl Otfried

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 Foster, Herbert Baldwin

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 Donne, William Bodham

So the traveller Pausanias was told, even in the second century after the Christian era, by the Hellespontine Greeks.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John