Scyros
Britishnoun
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At last the fleet came to the Isle of Scyros, where they suspected that Achilles was concealed.
From Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang
He lived to a great age.57.Pherecydes was a native of Scyros, one of the Cyclades; and is said to have obtained his knowledge from the secret books of the Phœnicians.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Charles Duke Yonge
Henceforth my island of Scyros, though it be rocky and small, shall content me.
From Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred John Church
My great-grandfather went to Scyros the 293 next day, and remained there five years.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
It was he who suggested that Neoptolemus and Philoctetes should be fetched from Scyros and Lemnos to Troy, and he was one of those who advised the construction of the wooden horse.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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