Lemnos

How To Use Lemnos In A Sentence

• Imbros, and Lemnos, but the four which were hindermost were caught off Elaeus. The History of the Peloponnesian War
• The orators of Opposition might soon have been reduced, like Philoetetes wasting his arrows upon geese at Lemnos, [Footnote: _ "Pinnigero, non armigero in corpore tela exerceantur. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01
• A petty vizier banishes a bostangi to Lemnos; the vizier Azem banishes the petty vizier to Tenedos; the pasha banishes the vizier Azem to Rhodes; the janissaries imprison the pasha and elect another who will banish the worthy A Philosophical Dictionary
• Clarke renders ‘ut tersis niteant talaria plantis,’ ‘that his wings shine upon his spruce feet.’] [Footnote 87: _God who inhabits Lemnos. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• I will vex the broad Aegean sea; and the beach of Myconus and the reefs round Delos, Scyros and Lemnos too, and the cliffs of Caphareus shall be strown with many a corpse. The Trojan Women
• Samos and the shady hills of Ida, in Scyros and Phocaea and the high hill of Autocane and fair-lying Imbros and smouldering Lemnos and rich Lesbos, home of Macar, the son of Aeolus, and Chios, brightest of all the isles that lie in the sea, and craggy Mimas and the heights of Corycus and gleaming Claros and the sheer hill of Aesagea and watered Samos and the steep heights of Mycale, in Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
• On the Lemnos Stele, an as-yet undeciphered phrase is inscribed: aker tavarśiu vanalasial śerunai murinail. Nouns modifying nouns in Etruscan and related languages
• What? did not women slay the sons of Aegyptus, and utterly clear Lemnos of men? Hecuba
• Professor R.J. Tarrant points out, the only meaning that can be attached to _quasque alias gentes barbarus Hister habet_ is 'the other people that live in the Danube'; he compares _Her_ VI 135-36 'prodidit illa patrem; rapui de clade Thoanta./deseruit Colchos; me mea Lemnos habet' and _Aen_ VI 362 (Palinurus speaking) 'nunc me fluctus habet'. The Last Poems of Ovid
• After leaving Aulis, the sleek hulls would have passed through the channel between the Greek coast and the island of Euboea and then turned eastward, island-hopping from the Sporades to Lemnos to Imbros. The Trojan War