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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Hellespont.

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Hellespont +‎ -ian

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Examples

  • Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Athenians forthwith, both those of the Council and those outside, when they heard of it, were very indignant, and they came about Lykidas and stoned him to death; but the Hellespontian Morychides they dismissed unhurt.

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

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