Zacynthus
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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For all the noblest that are princes in the islands, in Dulichium and Same and wooded Zacynthus, and as many as lord it in rocky Ithaca, all these woo my mother and waste my house.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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
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 William Cowper
On Point Leukimme they posted their land forces, and a thousand heavy infantry who had come from Zacynthus to their assistance.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley
Arrived at Zacynthus, the navigator and the Greek woman were married in the temple of Diana before all the Senate, of which the young man was himself a member.
From Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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