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Zacynthus

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

noun

  1. Latin name of Zante.


Zacynthus British  
/ -ˈkɪn-, zəˈsɪnθəs /

noun

  1. the Latin name for Zante

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I saw you talking with S�nnica the rich, she whom her friends call the most beautiful woman in Zacynthus.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

At this moment the Athenian fleet from Zacynthus arrived, now numbering fifty sail, having been reinforced by some of the ships on guard at Naupactus and by four Chian vessels.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard

Your pilot offered to bring me to Zacynthus, and I came.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

In the smaller islands, such as Ithaca and Zacynthus, the population had become Hellenized at the time of the composition of the Homeric poems.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Consequently, while Zeus allotted to this and that hero and demigod Argos and Mycene and the woody Zacynthus, each to each, the ocean remained unbounded and unmeted.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

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