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- adjective Of or pertaining to
Hellespont .
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Hellespont + -ian
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Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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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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