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Aegean Sea
/əˈdʒi.ən ˈsi/
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What does Aegean Sea mean?
proper noun
- A sea in the northeastern part of the Mediterranean.
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/əˈdʒi.ən ˈsi/
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The spectators are told that this forms a word of two syllables, representing an island in the Aegean Sea.
Cimon, by these means, got the town, expelled the Dolopian pirates, and so opened the traffic of the Aegean sea.
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How did it arise among the peoples of the AEgean Sea?
We learn from the classics that there were certain females inhabiting the borders of the Aegean Sea who had a sentimental attachment for one another which was called "Lesbian love," and which carried them to the highest degree of frenzy.
The colonies of the Dorians resorted chiefly to Italy and Sicily, which, in the times preceding the foundation of Rome, were inhabited by barbarous and uncivilized nations; those of the Ionians and Aeolians, the two other great tribes of the Greeks, to Asia Minor and the islands of the Aegean sea, of which the inhabitants sewn at that time to have been pretty much in the same state as those of Sicily and Italy.