Bithynia
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Bithynian adjective
Example Sentences
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Having gone through his rites of manhood in Rome, the ambitious young Julius Caesar — Gaius in the opera — is sent to Bithynia to collect ships from King Nicomedes.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2017
The instrumentation now comprises a 13-player Western ensemble and, especially for the scenes in exotic Bithynia, five obbligato Asian instruments and a full American gamelan, meaning a Javanese-style mostly metallic percussion orchestra made in America.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017
He fought against Roman forces as an ally of the kings of Syria and Bithynia.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
When Roman agents came for him in Bithynia on the Black Sea in Anatolia in 183 B.C., he committed suicide rather than submit to Rome.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
One or two poems, in which his final renunciation is made with much scornful emphasis, belong to a later date after his return from Bithynia.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
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