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Megaris

American  
[meg-er-is] / ˈmɛg ər ɪs /

noun

  1. a district in ancient Greece, between the Gulf of Corinth and Saronic Gulf.


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By 33 to 24, the prelates chose soft-voiced Metropolitan Iakovos,* 68, of Attica and Megaris.

From Time Magazine Archive

Demetrios rode unhelmeted, intending that these snarling little people of Megaris should plainly see the man whom they most feared and hated.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell

A galley of the proconsul's fleet conveyed them toward Christendom and set the twoscore slaves of yesterday ashore not far from Megaris.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell

How a Minstrel Came Demetrios came to Megaris where Perion lay fettered in the Castle of San' Alessandro, then a new building.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by James Branch Cabell

Hercules killed the great lion there; Mount Aigiplanktos was in Megaris; Strait Saronic: Saronicus Sinus was a bay of the Ægean Sea; Mount Arachnaios, in Argolis. p.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

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