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  • "When I had set sail thence the wind took me first to Ismarus, which is the city of the Cicons.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Ulysses was nine days in sailing from Ismarus, the city of the Ciconians, to the country of the Lotus-eaters — a period of time which to-day would breed anxiety in the hearts of the underwriters should it be occupied by the slowest tramp steamer in traversing the Mediterranean and Black seas from Gibraltar to Sebastopol.

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 2010

  • For example, Odysseus and his men stormed and sacked the city of Ismarus in Thrace, a Trojan ally.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • For example, Odysseus and his men stormed and sacked the city of Ismarus in Thrace, a Trojan ally.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Thee, too, Ismarus, proud nations saw aiming wounds and arming thy shafts with poison, -- thee, of house illustrious in

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Three Thracians likewise of Boreas 'sovereign race, and three sent by their father Idas from their native Ismarus, fall in divers wise before him.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Ismarus, the city of the Ciconians, to the country of the

    The Shrinkage of the Planet 1910

  • Odysseus relates, first, what befell him amongst the Cicones at Ismarus; secondly, amongst the Lotophagi; thirdly, how he was used by the Cyclops Polyphemus.

    Book IX Homer 1909

  • Now I had with me a goat-skin of the dark wine and sweet which Maron, son of Euanthes, had given me, the priest of Apollo, the god that watched over Ismarus.

    Book IX Homer 1909

  • ‘The wind that bare me from Ilios brought me nigh to the Cicones, even to Ismarus, whereupon I sacked their city and slew the people.

    Book IX Homer 1909

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