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Ialysus

American  
[ahy-al-uh-suhs, ee-al-] / aɪˈæl ə səs, iˈæl- /
Or Ialysos

noun

  1. an ancient Mycenaean city on the island of Rhodes.


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But Phorbas having met with shipwreck, he and Parthenia, the sister of Phorbas and Periergus, swam ashore to Ialysus, at the point called Schedia.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

His master-piece was the picture of Ialysus, the tutelary hero of Rhodes, where he lived.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

At the time when Demetrius attacked the city of Rhodes, Protogenes was painting a picture of Ialysus.

From The Pleasures of Life by Lubbock, John, Sir

The cities of Lindus, Ialysus, Camirus, Cos, with Cnidus and Halicarnassus, on the mainland, formed the Dorian Hexapolis of Caria, inferior, however, to the Ionian and Æolian colonies.

From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John

A pleasanter cut and thrust bronze sword than the one found at Ialysus no gentleman could wish to handle.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

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