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And leaving Dardania they directed their course to Abydus, and after it they sailed past Percote and the sandy beach of Abarnis and divine Pityeia.
The Argonautica 2008
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Abydus, Memnonis olim regia; postea Osiris fano inclyta: et Arabiæ contermina, claritatis magnæ Heliopolis, id est, Solis urbs.
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The distance from Abydus on the Hellespont to the Anatolian shore of the island of Lesbos just to the north of Mitylene was about a hundred miles, which, said the chief pilot when Caesar applied to him for the information, would take between five and ten days if the weather held and every ship was genuinely seaworthy.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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When Caesar arrived in Abydus on the Ides of October, he found the promised fleet riding at anchor-two massive Pontic sixteeners, eight quinqueremes, ten triremes, and twenty well-built but not particularly warlike galleys.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Belisarius, accordingly, straightway impaled these two men on the hill which is near Abydus.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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And upon setting out from Abydus they met with strong winds which carried them to Sigeum.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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And leaving Dardania they directed their course to Abydus, and after it they sailed past Percote and the sandy beach of Abarnis and divine Pityeia.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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For at this point they again approach each other at Sestus and Abydus, and once more at Byzantium and Chalcedon as far as the rocks called in ancient times the "Dark Blue Rocks," where even now is the place called Hieron.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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And leaving Dardania they directed their course to Abydus, and after it they sailed past Percote and the sandy beach of Abarnis and divine Pityeia.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Hellespont, strait between Sestus and Abydus, III. i.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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