How To Use Pontus In A Sentence
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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
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Pontus in autumn along with the young tunnies, and enter Pontus in the spring as pelamyds.
The History of Animals
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Comana, in Pontus, in the sixtieth year of his age.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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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
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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.
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(the "Trista" and "Letters from Pontus") have no other topic than the poet's sorrows, his exquisite taste and fruitful invention have redeemed them from the charge of being tedious, and they are read with pleasure and even with sympathy.
The Age of Fable
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The letter of 1 Peter is addressed to the exiled Jews of the “Diaspora” Jews living out of the Land of Israel in the provinces of Asia Minor, namely Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
The Jesus Dynasty
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There are yet to be perceiued of the ruine of those wals, which do now extend, into the sea about halfe a mile: also from the castle Westward into the land, they did perceiue the ruines of a stone wall to extend, which wal, as it is reported, did passe from thence to Pontus Euxinus, and was built by Alexander the great when the Castle Derbent was made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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But if ye shun the clashing rocks and come scatheless inside Pontus, straightway keep the land of the Bithynians on your right and sail on, and beware of the breakers, until ye round the swift river Rhebas and the black beach, and reach the harbour of the Isle of Thynias.
The Argonautica
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
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Then the idea dawned upon him: how noble an opportunity to acquire new territory and power for Hellas, by the founding of a colony — a city of no mean size, moreover, said he to himself, as he reckoned up their own numbers — and besides themselves a population planted on the shores of Pontus.
Anabasis
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Mithridates VI “the Great”, king of Pontus morality:
Sands of Empire
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After the Persians were thrown out by Alexander, an independent but weak Cappadocian kingdom arose, to be a pawn in the conflict between Rome and Perseus of Macedon, then Rome and Antiochus, then Rome and Mithridates VI of Pontus, and then between various Roman generals like Antony and Octavian, until the kingdom was made a Roman province.
Log of the Eclipse (8)
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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect.
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Hellenes say formerly moved backwards and forwards; and taking his seat at the temple644 he gazed upon the Pontus, which is a sight well worth seeing.
The History of Herodotus
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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.
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An Average Idea will be featured on their debut album, entitled Pontus, The Devil, and Me, due to release next year.
No Fat Clips!!! : LOVE IN OCTOBER – An Average Idea
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Heraclea in Pontus, and a similar event formerly occurred at Hiera, one of the Aeolian Islands.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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The Pontus desk (image below) is a generously proportioned partner desk combining walnut, oak and painted finish with cable management system and hidden router/hard drive storage built-in.
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Given the nature of the project, Pontus Hulten was an obvious choice to direct the artistic activities of the new Kunsthalle.
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Subsequently we find him in "Babylon," whence he wrote this First Epistle to the Israelite believers of the dispersion, and the Gentile Christians united in Christ, in Pontus,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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They lived in Pontus, which is part of modern day Turkey near the shore of the Black Sea, where they formed an independent kingdom under the government of another queen, named Hippolyta ( "she lets her horses loose").
Archive 2007-04-01
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He ran a relentless crusade against the poison antidote formulated by Mithridates, the King of Pontus, Asia Minor, in the first century BC.
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2There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome.
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For neither did Peter personally minister to the churches in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, though he wrote his Epistles to them.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Eastern Asia Minor, that is Cappadocia, Pontus and Armenia, he left alone, and its contingents would still be arrayed on the Persian side in both the great battles to come.
The Ancient East
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There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, following a decree of the Emperor Claudius which ordered all Jews to leave Rome.
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And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
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The Pontus desk (image below) is a generously proportioned partner desk combining walnut, oak and painted finish with cable management system and hidden router/hard drive storage built-in.
