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Epirus

noun

An ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwestern Greece and southern Albania.

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... by a second embassy. 3. fatigaretur was importuned. 3-4. non tam ... inductus. Pyrrhus aimed at founding a western Grecian Empire in Italy and Sicily. 7-9. patruo suo Alexandro ... fuerant. Alexander of Epirus had almost succeeded in uniting the whole of Magna Graecia (332-326 B.C.) when he was cut off by the hand of an assassin. 9. magno Alexandro. Pyrrhus was acknowledged to be the first general of the school of Alexander, and Hannibal (so Plutarch ...

— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce

... beginning, and since the withdrawal of Prince William of Wied, the government, always powerless, has fallen into chaos. Intervention on the part of neighboring states is inevitable. And only last month the southern part of Albania—that is, Northern Epirus—was occupied by a Greek army for the purpose of ending the sanguinary anarchy which has hitherto prevailed. This action will be no surprise to the readers of this volume. The occupation, or rather re-occupation, is declared by the Greek Government to be provisional and it is apparently approved ...

— The Balkan Wars: 1912-1913 - Third Edition • Jacob Gould Schurman

... name, himself a freedman and a favorite of Nero. Epictetus may have been a hearer of C. Musonius Rufus, while he was still a slave, but he could hardly have been a teacher before he was made free. He was one of the philosophers whom Domitian's order banished from Rome. He retired to Nicopolis in Epirus, and he may have died there. Like other great teachers he wrote nothing, and we are indebted to his grateful pupil Arrian for what we have of Epictetus' discourses. Arrian wrote eight books of the discourses of Epictetus, of which only four remain and some fragments. We have also ...

— Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

... of Montenegro, and thrice that distance from Scutari, is, politically speaking, in the Pashalic of Bosnia. The Servian or Bosniac language here ceases to be the preponderating language, and the Albanian begins and stretches southward to Epirus. But through all the Pashalic of Scutari, ...

— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... rumour meanwhile whispers That Theseus is not dead, but in Epirus Has shown himself. But, after all my search, I know ...

— Phaedra • Jean Baptiste Racine

Words linked to "Epirus" : Hellenic Republic, geographic region, Albania, geographical area, geographic area, Greece, Republic of Albania, geographical region, Ellas