Pontus

[ pon-tuh s ]

/ ˈpɒn təs /

noun

an ancient country in NE Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea: later a Roman province.

Also Pon·tos

[pon-tos] /ˈpɒn tɒs/. the ancient Greek personification of the sea.

Example sentences from the Web for pontus

Herakleides of Pontus relates that the mother of Solon was first cousin to the mother of Peisistratus.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) |Plutarch
Hazelnuts also came from Pontus; walnuts, again, came originally from Persia.

The Swiss Family Robinson |Johann David Wyss
The ancestor would be one of the seven, to whom the kingdom of Pontus was given for his services; Polyb.

The History of Antiquity |Max Duncker
Heraclides, native of Pontus, that it is a lofty cloud inflamed by a sublime fire.

Essays and Miscellanies |Plutarch

Can he so have accustomed his system to poisons, that, as with the King of Pontus, they are ineffectual to help or to harm him?

Edmond Dants |Edmund Flagg

British Dictionary definitions for pontus

Pontus

/ (ˈpɒntəs) /

noun

an ancient region of NE Asia Minor, on the Black Sea: became a kingdom in the 4th century bc; at its height under Mithridates VI (about 115–63 bc), when it controlled all Asia Minor; defeated by the Romans in the mid-1st century bc

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Example sentences from the Web for pontus

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