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

"Do not strive to make the passage of the Symplegades," he said.

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

For many a league he hears the roar   Of the Symplegades; And through the far foam of its shore   The Isle of Sappho sees.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

At length the mighty troop of strangers passed us, and, I suppose, must have arrived at the Symplegades about the same time that I sought the elegant hospitality of the British Palace at Pera.

From Sketches by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

From The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides by Murray, Gilbert