Mycale
Americannoun
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He had higher aspirations than mere enjoyment, even of an elevated kind: witness Salamis and Mycale, the Pass of Thermopylæ and the fields of Marathon and Platæa.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
The battles of Salamis, Platæa, and Mycale were the successive blows that shattered into fragments the most splendid armaments ever commanded by Asiatic despot.
From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers
The high ridge of Mycale towered above it; Miletus faced it across an estuary; Samos stood out seawards to the west.
From Ancient Town-Planning by F. (Francis) Haverfield
At the same time as this battle the remainder of the Persian fleet suffered a crushing defeat at Mycale, a promontory off the Ionian coast.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
Nastes commanded the barbarous-voiced Carians, who possessed Miletus, and the leaf-topped mountain of Pethiri, and the streams of Mæander, and the lofty tops of Mycale.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Theodore Alois Buckley
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