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Strymon

NOUN
  1. large and widely distributed genus of hairstreak butterflies

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  • Ladon, Pheres, Demodocus; his gleaming sword shears off Strymonius 'hand as it rises to his throat; he strikes Thoas on the face with a stone, and drives the bones asunder in a shattered mass of blood and brains. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • The maritime country which we now call Macedonia was conquered and formed into a kingdom by Alexander the father of Perdiccas and his ancestors the Temenidae, who originally came from Argos. 59 They defeated and drove out of Pieria the Pierians, who afterwards settled in Phagres and other places at the foot of Mount Pangaeus, beyond the Strymon; the land which lies under Mount Pangaeus towards the sea is still called the Pierian vale. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • This was effected by the expulsion from Pieria of the Pierians, who afterwards inhabited Phagres and other places under Mount Pangaeus along the sea beyond the Strymon indeed the country between Pangaeus and the sea is still called the Pierian gulf, and also by the expulsion of the Bottiaeans, at present neighbors of the Chalcidians from Bottiaea. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
  • Hagnon called his new foundation Amphipolis, the City Surrounded, from its strong position in a loop of the Strymon.
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