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  • And observe that Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name which signifies a ladle.

    Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine 1862

  • Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name which signifies a ladle.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • Cleopatra’s pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name which signifies a ladle.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • By the end of April, Agrippa controlled the Adriatic and all Octavian’s troops had been safely landed around Epirote Toryne, in the lee of Corcyra.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • By the end of April, Agrippa controlled the Adriatic and all Octavian’s troops had been safely landed around Epirote Toryne, in the lee of Corcyra.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • He could so quickly cut the Ionian Sea, and take in Toryne. "

    Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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