Euxine









Euxine


Euxine [yook-sin, -sahyn] Examples adjective

  1. of or relating to the Black Sea.

Examples from the Web for euxine Historical Examples of euxine

  • The disquisition on the reasons for the Euxine’s freezing over is, however, new.

    The Last Poems of Ovid

    Ovid

  • From Egypt to the Euxine Sea, the bishops were in arms and in motion.

    The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

  • No corn-ships could now reach them from the Euxine Sea, and few from other quarters.

    Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15)

    Charles Morris

  • It was a colony of Miletus, and was the most important Greek city north of the Euxine.

    Plutarch’s Lives, Volume IV

    Aubrey Stewart

  • It then enters Themiscyra, and discharges itself into the Euxine.

    The Geography of Strabo, Volume II (of 3)

    Strabo

  • Word Origin and History for euxine Euxine

    archaic name for the Black Sea, from Latin Pontus Euxinus, from Greek Pontos Euxenios, literally “the hospitable sea,” a euphemism for Pontos Axeinos, “the inhospitable sea.”

    According to Room, The Old Persian name for the sea was akhshaena, literally “dark,” probably in reference to the sudden, dangerous storms that make the sea perilous to sailors and darken its face, and the Greeks took this untranslated as Pontos Axeinos, which was interpeted as the similar-sounding Greek word axenos “inhospitable.” Thus the modern English name could reflect the Old Persian one.

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