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Mycale

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[mik-uh-lee] / ˈmɪk ə li /

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.


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It is reported, also, that the news of the battle fought in Italy, near the river Sagra, was conveyed into Peloponnesus the same day, and of that at Mycale against the Medes, to Plataea.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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

From Authors of Greece by T. W. Lumb

After the battle of Mycale the Greek states in Asia Minor and on the islands once more rose in revolt against the Persians.

From Early European History by Hutton Webster

The Athenians accordingly withdrew to Samos, and the Peloponnesians put in at Mycale, and encamped with the land forces of the Milesians and the people of the neighbourhood.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

According to Heraclides Ponticus 33. their settlements reached from Mycale to Pitane, Diod.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

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