Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
Penæus . - noun See
Penæus .
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- noun type genus of the family Peneidae
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Examples
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Peneus among men of old time; for dear to her were maidenhood and a couch unstained.
The Argonautica 2008
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Yon holy land by Peneus fed, nestling in all its beauty at
The Trojan Women 2008
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Peneus, the river of fair eddies, knows him well, and those far fields unharvested, and the steadings on Pelion and they who haunt the glens of
Heracles 2008
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Peneus, the river of fair eddies, knows him well, and those far fields unharvested, and the steadings on Pelion and they who haunt the glens of
Heracles 2008
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Yon holy land by Peneus fed, nestling in all its beauty at
The Trojan Women 2008
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‘Or like her, beautiful Cyrene, who dwelt in Phthia by the water of Peneus and had the beauty of the Graces.’
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Thessalie flowing into Peneus, swimmeth aloft like oile.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thessalie flowing into Peneus, swimmeth aloft like oile.
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Apsus, making its way between vast and lofty mountains which all but meet above a single deep ravine in the midst, is not unlike the river Peneus, in the rapidity of its current, and in its general appearance.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Behold now the melancholy train cross the flats of Thrace, and wind through the defiles, and over the mountains of Macedonia, coast the clear waves of the Peneus, cross the Larissean plain, pass the straits of
The Last Man 2003
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