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

THOAS, King of Tauris, a savage country beyond the Symplegades.

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert

The well-known Symplegades of the Argonautic expedition which were placed at the entrance of the Euxine, were probably patterned after this Homeric conception, and transferred to the North-east.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

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

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert

Two youths are come into this land, to the dark-blue Symplegades, fleeing into a ship, a grateful sacrifice and offering to Diana.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides