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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Example Sentences

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

He clewed up his canvas like a wise mariner, and lay to while the Symplegades butted one another with their foreheads of adamant, and the sea was white with terror all about them.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

The care of thy children perishes in vain, and in vain hast thou produced a dear race, O thou who didst leave the most inhospitable entrance of the Cyanean rocks, the Symplegades.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

Symplegades clanged together behind; mighty gulfs, below seducing bends of smooth water, awaited us before.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various

After the miraculous passage of the Argo, the Symplegades became permanently united, and attached to the bottom of the sea.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by Berens, E.M.