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Hellespontus

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[hel-uh-spon-tis] / ˌhɛl əˈspɒn tɪs /

noun

  1. an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.


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Next Acamas and Pyrous lead their hosts, In dread array, from Thracia's wintry coasts; Round the bleak realms where Hellespontus roars, And Boreas beats the hoarse-resounding shores.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Audiet Ionii littus maris, atq. ubi fluctus Ægæi sonat, atq. ubi turbidus Hellespontus Sævit, et angustâ populos interstrepit undâ.

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney

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