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Calpe   Listen
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Calpe  n.  The Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; associated with Britain.
Synonyms: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar.






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"Calpe" Quotes from Famous Books



... His task and mine alike are nearly done; Yet once more let us look upon the sea: The midland ocean breaks on him and me, And from the Alban Mount we now behold Our friend of youth, that ocean, which when we Beheld it last by Calpe's rock unfold Those waves, we followed on ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various

... to be the germ—unless, indeed, the thought had been conceived above—here at any rate the first conscious expression of the colonisation scheme, of which we shall hear more below, in reference to Cotyora; the Phasis; Calpe. It appears again fifty years later in the author's pamphlet "On Revenues," chapters i. and vi. For the special evils of the fourth century B.C., and the growth of pauperism between B.C. 401 and 338, see Jebb, "Attic Orators," ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon



Words linked to "Calpe" :   Gibraltar, head, colony, headland, Europe, Gibraltarian, foreland, promontory



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