Strymon

British  

/ ˈstraɪmən /

noun

1. transliteration of the Greek name for the Struma

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Example Sentences

Thick flies their spear-storm: 'tis as when the Strymon cranes give forth Their war-sign on the mirky rack, and down the heavens they run Sonorous, fleeing southern breeze with clamour following on.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

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

Then in that grim night God sent unseasonable frost, and froze The stream of holy Strymon.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

The Strymon is a river of Thrace, which runs by the city Edonis: it was of old called the river Pal�stinus.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

He should be pleased, however, he said, if the king would assign him a certain small territory in Thrace, or, rather, on the borders between Thrace and Macedonia, near the mouth of the River Strymon.

From Darius the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob