Cilician

The only way through this barrier was an infamous pass known as the Cilician Gates, a narrow defile barely wide enough for a handful of men to march side by side.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The only way through this barrier was an infamous pass known as the Cilician Gates, a narrow defile barely wide enough for a handful of men to march side by side.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The only way through this barrier was an infamous pass known as the Cilician Gates, a narrow defile barely wide enough for a handful of men to march side by side.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Eugenius is called a Cilician bishop by John of Ephesus, but Bar Habraeus makes him Bishop of Selucia in Isauria (see Tritheists).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

= -- These same newcomers brought with them a greater variety of fabrics and garments, such as Cilician goat's-hair cloth, out of which coarse cloaks and curtains, as well as tents, were made; also felt for hats and sandals.

Hebrew Life and Times 1918

[270: 1] "Cilician," or "Corycean," were the established classical epithets to use when speaking of the Saffron.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

" And cilice pronounced SILL-iss, from Latin cilicium 'Cilician' is "Hair-cloth; a rough garment made of hair-cloth, generally worn as a penitential robe."

languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB. 2005

In his eagerness to set fire to the countryside, he posted only a small guard to hold the Cilician Gates.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

He used the city as his headquarters for the next week while he and his men scoured the nearby mountains for rebellious Cilician highlanders.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

In his eagerness to set fire to the countryside, he posted only a small guard to hold the Cilician Gates.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011