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  • When the sea-fight had been broken off, the Hellenes towed in to Salamis so many of the wrecks as chanced to be still about there, and held themselves ready for another sea-fight, expecting that the king would yet make use of the ships which remained unhurt; but many of the wrecks were taken by the West Wind and borne to that strand in Attica which is called Colias; so as to fulfil1293 not only all that other oracle which was spoken about this sea-fight by Bakis and Musaios, but also especially, with reference to the wrecks cast up here, that which had been spoken in an oracle many years before these events by Lysistratos, an Athenian who uttered oracles, and which had not been observed by any of the Hellenes:

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • Salamis so many of the wrecks as chanced to be still about there, and held themselves ready for another sea-fight, expecting that the king would yet make use of the ships which remained unhurt; but many of the wrecks were taken by the West Wind and borne to that strand in Attica which is called Colias; so as to fulfil [60] not only all that other oracle which was spoken about this sea-fight by Bakis and Musaios, but also especially, with reference to the wrecks cast up here, that which had been spoken in an oracle many years before these events by

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 2 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • Baindur recorded 28 species of butterfly from six families during May-June 1993, including common yellow swallowtail Papilo machaon, common blue apollo Parnassius hardwickei, dark clouded yellow Colias electo, Queen of Spain Issoria iathonia, and Indian tortoiseshell Aglais cashmirensis.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

  • My choices were either Colias philodice or C. eurytheme.

    Archive 2006-02-01 AYDIN 2006

  • Colias erate superhydrophobic surfaces, self-cleaning sea slug perform colonoscopies

    The Speculist: Why Invent When You Can Discover? 2005

  • Colias erate superhydrophobic surfaces, self-cleaning sea slug perform colonoscopies

    The Speculist: June 2005 Archives 2005

  • At the end of the day, a zephyr, a west wind, blew up, and eventually it drove wrecks, oars, and corpses onto the Attic shore around Cape Colias, not far south of Phaleron.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • At the end of the day, a zephyr, a west wind, blew up, and eventually it drove wrecks, oars, and corpses onto the Attic shore around Cape Colias, not far south of Phaleron.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • More species than one were present, but the main part belonged to a kind very similar to, but not identical with, the common English Colias edusa.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • The great bands of the Colias seem at first to afford an instance like those on record of the migrations of another butterfly, Vanessa cardui; 85 but the presence of other insects makes the case distinct, and even less intelligible.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

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