NOUN
- (Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea; father of Nereus
- an ancient region of northern Asia Minor on the Black Sea; it reached its height under Mithridates VI but was later incorporated into the Roman Empire
How To Use Pontus In A Sentence
- What can be said of the kingdom of Thrace, set up by the Gauls who had ravaged Macedonia, or of the kingdoms of Pontus, of Bythnia, of Pergamum and of Syria, founded by adventurers after the battle of Ipsus in 301 B.C.? Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture
- Pontus in autumn along with the young tunnies, and enter Pontus in the spring as pelamyds. The History of Animals
- I just ran into a nice word: mithridatism, named after Mithridates VI of Pontus, the phenomenon of partial immunity to poison acquired by taking small doses. Arsenic
- Sidene, was a town called Side, which, it is believed, took the name of Polemonium in honour of Polemion, made King of Pontus by Marcus The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- And it runneth Southward into a certain great sea 700. miles about before it falleth into the sea called Pontus Euximus. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
- I don't have the list of office hymns that are sung specifically on this day - but the LLPB appoints this hymn, "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" (that's the mp3) (Quem terra, pontus, aethera) to "The Common of Saints - A hymn about the Blessed Virgin Mary. Archive 2008-05-01
- He vacillated an hour between his translation of St Fortunatus 'hymn, _Quem terra, pontus aethera_, and "Red as a Rose is She," which, although he thought it as reprehensible for moral as for literary reasons, he was fain to follow out to the vulgar end. A Mere Accident
- Comana, in Pontus, in the sixtieth year of his age. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Comana in Pontus was a powerful and wealthy foundation, and the high priest was respected as the second person in the kingdom. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Other states in the region were just as dependent on the trade with Pontus and were therefore prepared to contribute to the costs of Athenian naval operations.
