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The way to them is of equal length from the city of Heraion near Perinthos and from Apollonia upon the Euxine Sea, that is to say two days 'journey by each road.
The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883
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As the Euxine Sea was the grand point to which all these routes tended, the towns on it became the resort of an immense number of merchants, even at very early ages; and the kingdoms of Prusias, Attalus, and Mithridates were enriched by their commerce.
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'sitting in the temple, he took a view of the Euxine Sea, which is worthy of admiration.'
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893
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Apollonia upon the Euxine Sea, that is to say two days’ journey by each road.
The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003
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Your part of the world is shadowy because it lies north of the Euphrates headwaters, but my treaty fixes the boundary hereabouts as a line between Colchis on the Euxine Sea and Lake Matiane.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Cleopatra Selene was proclaimed Queen of Cyrenaica and Cyprus, and little Ptolemy Philadelphus was proclaimed King of Macedonia, Greece, Thrace, and the lands around the Euxine Sea.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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Gentiles, is that mentioned by Berosus, and which he fixes at about four thousand four hundred years before our vulgar era; which deluge did not extend beyond the Euxine Sea.
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Your part of the world is shadowy because it lies north of the Euphrates headwaters, but my treaty fixes the boundary hereabouts as a line between Colchis on the Euxine Sea and Lake Matiane.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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His ordinary residence was not at Rome, but at Nicomedia, near the Euxine Sea, either to watch over the Persians and the barbarians, or because he was attached to a retreat which he had himself embellished.
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Cleopatra Selene was proclaimed Queen of Cyrenaica and Cyprus, and little Ptolemy Philadelphus was proclaimed King of Macedonia, Greece, Thrace, and the lands around the Euxine Sea.
Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007
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