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Erythraean — Erythrean Er y*thre an, Erythraean Er y*thr[ae] an, a. [L. erythraeus; Gr. ?, fr. eryqro s red.] Red in color. The erythrean main. Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Erythraean Sibyl — The Erythraean Sibyl, by the name of Herophile, [Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women translated by Virginia Brown 2001; Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press; ISBN 0 674 01130 9; p. 42] was the prophetess of classical antiquity presiding… … Wikipedia
Erythraean Sea — The Erythraean Sea (Greek: Ερυθρά Θάλασσα) is an ancient name for the Indian Ocean or its attached gulfs, specifically, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea (which was formerly known as the Arabian Gulf, as the Greek Ερυθρά actually means Red).ee… … Wikipedia
erythraean — er·y·thrae·an … English syllables
erythraean — a. red. ♦ erythraemia, n. excessive production of red blood corpuscles. ♦ erythrism, erythrochroism, n. excessive redness of hair, etc. ♦ erythrocyte, n. red blood corpuscle. ♦ erythrodermia, n. reddening of skin. ♦ erythroid, a … Dictionary of difficult words
erythraean — I. |erə|thrēən adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Erythrae, ancient city of Asia Minor (from Greek Erythrai) + English an : of or relating to Erythrae, an ancient Ionian city of Asia Minor that claimed to have been the residence of… … Useful english dictionary
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea — Names, routes and locations of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea or Periplus of the Red Sea (Greek: Περίπλους τὴς Ἐρυθράς Θαλάσσης, Latin: Periplus Maris Erythraei) is a Gre … Wikipedia
Sibyl — The word sibyl probably comes (via Latin) from the Greek word sibylla , meaning prophetess. (Other schools of thought suggest that the word may have come from Arabic.) The earlier oracular seeresses known as the sibyls of antiquity, who… … Wikipedia
Agatharchides — (Ἀγαθαρχίδης or Agatharchus Ἀγάθαρχος) of Cnidus, was a Greek historian and geographer (flourished 2nd century BC).LifeHe is believed to have been born at Cnidus; this leading to his appellation. As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the evidence for… … Wikipedia
Afroasiatic languages — Afroasiatic Geographic distribution: Horn of Africa, North Africa, Sahel, and Middle East[1] Linguistic classification: One of the world s major language families Proto language … Wikipedia
