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Definition of Euripus
1. n. A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Eubœa and Bœotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.
Definition of Euripus
1. a swift sea channel [n -PI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Euripus
Literary usage of Euripus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Thirty on one side of the rock, and twenty on the other. Gell, It. of Grace, P..
1 According to Gell (A. of Greece, p..), the tide of the euripus is regular ..."
2. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The channel of the euripus which parts The Euri- it from the main land, ...
the tide of the euripus is regular for about eighteen or nineteen days each ..."
3. Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East by Robert Walpole (1818)
"ON THE SYRINX OF STRABO, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE euripus. [BY MR. HAWKINS.}
IN the very short description which Strabo has transmitted to us of the ..."
4. Pausanias, and Other Greek Sketches by James George Frazer (1900)
"EVENING ON THE euripus.— The views from Anthedon across the beautiful euripus
are charming, especially at sunset when the opposite mountains of Euboea glow ..."
5. Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens by Evelyn Abbott (1892)
"... Athenians remain in their walls—A fleet sent round the Peloponnesus and to
the euripus—The Athenians at ^Egina and Megara—Alliance with ..."
6. An Exact Survey of the Tide: Explicating Its Production and Propagation by Edward Barlow (1722)
"... in the euripus ; and bow, ... gO) as in the Streight of the euripus; in both
which Places, they make but One ..."
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