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Lesbos

[ lez-bos, -bohs; Greek les-vaws ]

Lesbos

/ ˈlɛzbɒs /

noun

  1. an island in the E Aegean, off the NW coast of Turkey: a centre of lyric poetry, led by Alcaeus and Sappho (6th century bc ); annexed to Greece in 1913. Chief town: Mytilene. Pop: 90 642 (2001). Area: 1630 sq km (630 sq miles) Modern Greek nameLésvos Former nameMytilene
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Certain authors wander into far-away countries for their subjects: to Sodom and Lesbos.

Theophrastus, of Lesbos, was a fullers son, and wrote a book on plants.

Next we pass the ancient island of Lesbos, one of the most beautiful in the Ægean Sea.

She also got possession of several islands; and among others, of Lesbos and Samothracia, in which last she founded an asylum.

And when the Persians succeeded, it is not credible, that they should apply to an oracle at Lesbos, or to an oracle of Greece.

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