Zacynthus

American  

[zuh-kin-thuhs, -sin-] / zəˈkɪn θəs, -ˈsɪn- /

noun

1. Latin name of Zante.

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Zacynthus British  

/ -ˈkɪn-, zəˈsɪnθəs /

noun

1. the Latin name for Zante

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Zacynthus

There are fifty-two chosen youths from Dulichium, and they have six servants; from Same there are twenty-four; twenty young Achaeans from Zacynthus, and twelve from Ithaca itself, all of them well born.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

Crocylia these,775 And these Zacynthus own'd; nor yet a few From Samos, from Epirus join'd their aid, And from the opposite Ionian shore.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William

Ulysses led the brave Cephallenians, who held Ithaca, Neritum with its forests, Crocylea, rugged Aegilips, Samos and Zacynthus, with the mainland also that was over against the islands.

From The Iliad by Homer

And at the time when she was making for Pherae, exulting in the breeze from Zeus, there appeared to them below the clouds the steep mountain of Ithaca, and Dulichium and Same and wooded Zacynthus.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

But he lay still, breathing heavily, and he stirred but once—that was when they neared Zacynthus.

From The World's Desire by Haggard, Henry Rider