Aegospotami

American  

[ee-guhs-pot-uh-mahy] / ˌi gəsˈpɒt əˌmaɪ /

noun

1. a river in ancient Thrace, flowing into the Hellespont: near its mouth the Athenian fleet was defeated by Lysander, 405 b.c., in the last battle of the Peloponnesian War.

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Aegospotami British  

/ ˌiːɡəsˈpɒtəˌmaɪ /

noun

1. a river of ancient Thrace that flowed into the Hellespont. At its mouth the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians in 405 _bc , ending the Peloponnesian War

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Example Sentences

In 405 BCE, the new Spartan fleet destroyed the Athenian navy at the Battle of Aegospotami in the Hellespont.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Tydeus, Menander, and Adimantus, the newly made generals, were at that time posted at Aegospotami, with all the ships which the Athenians had left.

From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)

Some eighteen months earlier—towards the end of 413 B.C.—had come news of the most stunning disaster that was to befall Athens till the final catastrophe at Aegospotami.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James

At length the Spartans captured an Athenian fleet near Aegospotami on the Hellespont.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton