Mycale

[ mik-uh-lee ]

noun

1. a promontory in W Asia Minor, in present-day W Turkey, opposite Samos: site of a Persian defeat by the Greeks in 479 b.c.

Example Sentences

Above it is Priene,43 and the mountain Mycale,44 which abounds with animals of the chace, and is covered with forests.

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The promontory Trogilium itself may be considered as a foot of the mountain Mycale.

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In the action at Mycale the Athenians took the palm of valour, bursting the enemy's line and storming his entrenchments.

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Over against the island Samos stood the sacred promontory, Mycale, in Ionia.

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Leotychides and Nanthippus gain a simultaneous victory over the Persian fleet at Mycale.

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