Strymon

British  

/ ˈstraɪmən /

noun

1. transliteration of the Greek name for the Struma

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Example Sentences

In 463 after a siege of more than two years the Athenians captured Thasos, with which they had quarrelled over mining rights in the Strymon valley.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

Even your own ancient records bear witness that my ancestors possessed all the country up to the Strymon and the frontier of Macedonia.

From The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Yonge, Charles Duke

By Strymon's torrent alone she sang, And Strymon shivered and coiled and sprang; And her arms went wide to the wild sweet water, And the love of the River around her rang.

From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes

Hope comes to kindle wrath; they hurl their missiles strongly; even as under black clouds cranes from the Strymon utter their signal notes and sail clamouring across the sky, and noisily stream down the gale.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

With the subjugation of the Paeonians and the crossing of the Strymon, Megabyzus reached the border of an empire, the Macedonian kingdom, the central district of which lay between the Axius and the Haliaemon.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) by Duncker, Max