How To Use Pillars of hercules In A Sentence
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Ceuta, which bears the modern English name of Apes 'Hill, was then designated Abyla; and Calpe and Abyla, at least according to an ancient and widely current interpretation, formed the renowned pillars of Hercules (Herculis columnæ), which for centuries were the limits of enterprise to the seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean world.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
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Abyla to the eminence in Africa on the opposite side of the strait, and both of these eminences formed the renowned Pillars of Hercules.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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On its obverse side is the image of two worlds between two columns, representing the Pillars of Hercules.
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It and the peak Abyla, on the opposite (African) coast, were styled by the Greeks, in their poetical language, "the pillars of Hercules;" whilst the strait between is said to have been executed by the same man of muscle, to wile away the tedium of an idle hour.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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Pillars of Hercules, forayed the Mediterranean, and sat in the high place of government over the soft sun-warm peoples.
CHAPTER XXXIV
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The bull swam with her out to sea, some say across the Pillars of Hercules to the shore of Southern Spain, others to Crete, where later she gave birth to Minos and Rhadamanthus, ruler of Elysium where the Shades go after death.
