Symplegades

American  

[sim-pleg-uh-deez] / sɪmˈplɛg əˌdiz /

plural noun

Classical Mythology.

1. a pair of rocky islands, at the entrance to the Black Sea, that often clashed together: Athena helped the Argonauts navigate them, after which they became fixed.

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Symplegades

He gave them wise advice, too, about the dangers before them, in especial about the Clashing Rocks, the Symplegades, that rolled perpetually against one another while the sea boiled up around them.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

We had brought our forest cattle where the seas Break in long tides from the Symplegades.

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Gilbert Murray

The Sirens, Scylla, and the Symplegades were some of the dangers of the journey.

From Readings from Latin Verse With Notes by Curtis C. Bushnell

For Apsyrtus had not gone toward the Symplegades seeking the Argo.

From The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

The heroes rowing with might, thus passed the Symplegades, two cliffs which opened and shut with such swift violence that a bird could scarce fly through the passage.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie