Stagira
Americannoun
noun
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They reached a city called Stagira, which is surrounded by walls adorned with beautiful towers.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
This remarkable man, the founder of the experimental school, and the Father of Natural History, was born 384 B. C. at Stagira in Macedonia.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Edward Clodd
Aristotle was born at Stagira, a Greek colony of Thrace, B.C.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
Some there are who blame Callisthenes for sailing to Alexander in hopes to obtain the rebuilding of Olynthus, as Aristotle had procured that of Stagira; and commend Ephorus, Xenocrates, and Menedemus, who rejected Alexander's solicitation.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
To his wife Herpylis he leaves the choice of two houses, the one in Chalcis, the other at Stagira.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
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