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  • The one here named was near the fountain Callirhoe by the Ilissus.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Ilissus, and begat Zetes and Galias his two sons of her.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The Acropolis of the ancient Athens extended to the Ilissus and

    Critias 2006

  • Acropolis extended to the Eridanus and Ilissus, and included the

    Critias 2006

  • Ilissus, or crown the emerald-islets of the amethyst Aegean!

    Burlesques 2006

  • Ilissus, or crown the emerald-islets of the amethyst Aegean!

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Ilissus never mirrored star our streams, and cockles blue

    Collected Poems 2003

  • Caucasian race - not on the Ilissus, the Tiber, the Rhine or the Thames, but on the rivers of Ethiopia.

    ANC Today 2003

  • Everybody knows that the basis of the civilization and literature of present day was on the Nile and not among the Caucasian race - not on the Ilissus, the Tiber, the Rhine or the Thames, but on the rivers of Ethiopia.

    ANC Today 2003

  • A key was delivered into my hands, which gave me the free use of a numerous and learned library; my apartment consisted of three elegant and well-furnished rooms in the new building, a stately pile, of Magdalen College; and the adjacent walks, had they been frequented by Plato's disciples, might have been compared to the Attic shade on the banks of the Ilissus.

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

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