Pontus

[ pon-tuh s ]

/ ˈpɒn təs /

noun

an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.

Also Pon·tos

[pon-tos] /ˈpɒn tɒs/. the ancient Greek personification of the sea.

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Examples from the Web for pontus

Herakleides of Pontus relates that the mother of Solon was first cousin to the mother of Peisistratus.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4)|Plutarch
Hazelnuts also came from Pontus; walnuts, again, came originally from Persia.
The Swiss Family Robinson|Johann David Wyss
The ancestor would be one of the seven, to whom the kingdom of Pontus was given for his services; Polyb.
The History of Antiquity|Max Duncker
Heraclides, native of Pontus, that it is a lofty cloud inflamed by a sublime fire.
Essays and Miscellanies|Plutarch

Can he so have accustomed his system to poisons, that, as with the King of Pontus, they are ineffectual to help or to harm him?
Edmond Dants|Edmund Flagg

British Dictionary definitions for pontus

Pontus

/ (ˈpɒntəs) /

noun

an ancient region of NE Asia Minor, on the Black Sea: became a kingdom in the 4th century bc; at its height under Mithridates VI (about 115–63 bc), when it controlled all Asia Minor; defeated by the Romans in the mid-1st century bc

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