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Euripus   Listen
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Euripus  n.  A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient frith of this name between Euboea and Boeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux.






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"Euripus" Quotes from Famous Books



... made to La Valliere, in a preceding chapter, very naturally makes us return to the principal hero of this tale, a poor wandering knight, roving about at the king's caprice. If our readers will be good enough to follow us, we will, in his company, cross that strait, more stormy than the Euripus, which separates Calais from Dover; we will speed across that green and fertile country, with its numerous little streams; through Maidstone, and many other villages and towns, each prettier than the other; and, finally, arrive ...
— Louise de la Valliere • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... pined away upon the riddle of the fisher- men, or that Aristotle, who understood the uncertainty of knowledge, and confessed so often the reason of man too weak for the works of nature, did ever drown him- self upon the flux and reflux of Euripus. We do but learn, to-day, what our better advanced judgments will unteach to-morrow; and Aristotle doth but instruct us, as Plato did him, that is, to confute himself. I have run through all sorts, yet find no rest in any: though our first studies ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne

... Anthedon.—Ver. 232. This was a town of Boeotia, opposite to Euboea, being situated on the Euripus, now called ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso



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