'The Gods call Chalcis, and men Cymindis:' to be taught how much more correct the name Chalcis is than the name. From Wordnik.com. [Cratylus] Reference
There was another Combe, the daughter of Asopus, who discovered the use of brazen arms, and was called Chalcis, from that circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
Chalcis and Emesa were also deprived of their power. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
Antiochus meanwhile was staying at Chalcis and keeping quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Chalcis in Euboea and disembarking in Boeotia led them against. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Cruni it went and Chalcis and past Dyme and fair Elis, where the. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Chalcis and Eretria; this was a quarrel in which the rest of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Of all the vast multitude, ten thousand only got safe into Chalcis. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
Chalcis, in Eubœa, then under garrison by Antipater, the Governor of. From Wordnik.com. [Fathers of Biology] Reference
And so, as the story goes, the two went to Chalcis and met by chance. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Eretrian territory, and the vessels which got to Chalcis, were saved. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
According to Servius he also translated the poems of Euphorion of Chalcis. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
Had Philip any part of his tetrarchy within Cyrrhestica, or Chalcis of Syria?. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
This was the year of flabby cods, near Teumessus, between Thebes and Chalcis. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Chalcis settled Rhegium, in Italy, just across the strait of Messene from Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [f. Sicily and Magna Graecia] Reference
Chalcis, but learning that the consul was approaching went back unobserved to Asia. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
With what he had, however, he took Chalcis and gained control of the rest of Euboea. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
Corinthian town of Chalcis, and, making a descent upon Sicyon, defeated a Sicyonian force. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
For, when the Greeks insisted that he depart from Corinth and Chalcis and from Demetrias in. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
The Athenians crushed the Boeotians and Euboeans and annexed part of the territory of Chalcis. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Rise of Athenian Democracy and the Persian Wars] Reference
Early in the day they began to pass one by one the narrows at Chalcis, now spanned by a bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
He landed them at Tanagra and there made a hasty raid; in the evening he sailed from Chalcis in. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Pithecusae (Ischia) was settled from Chalcis, Eretria, and Cyme on an island in the Bay of Naples. From Wordnik.com. [f. Sicily and Magna Graecia] Reference
At Chalcis, the people, uniting with the notables, killed Phoxus the tyrant, and then seized the government. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
According to one account they flourished at the same time and even had a contest of skill at Chalcis in Euboea. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
The inscription is of the days of Pericles, and records the terms on which Chalcis in Eubœa was again received as an. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
‘Hesiod dedicated this tripod to the Muses of Helicon after he had conquered divine Homer at Chalcis in a contest of song.’. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Hicks, 78, 81; and for an alliance between Athens and Chalcis in Euboea, see Hicks, 79; and for a treaty with Chios, Hicks, 80. 480. From Wordnik.com. [Hellenica] Reference
Then I crossed over to Chalcis, to the games of wise Amphidamas where the sons of the great-hearted hero proclaimed and appointed prizes. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Euphorion of Chalcis, Alexander, Stesichorus, and the people of. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations] Reference
Its principal city was Chalcis, one of the strongest in Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient States and Empires] Reference
Chalcis at Jaen; that of Palestine at Algezire and Medina Sidonia. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference
The colonies on the coast of Macedonia were chiefly founded by Chalcis and. From Wordnik.com. [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference
Armenia, and Polemo, who was king of Pontus, as also Herod his brother, who was king of Chalcis. From Wordnik.com. [Antiquities of the Jews] Reference
He conducted Sapor over the Euphrates, and, by the way of Chalcis, to the metropolis of the East. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
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