Crossword-Solution: COLCHIS
We have 13 clues for the answer “COLCHIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AEETES, kingdom of | 1 answer |
| ANCIENT Black Sea country | 1 answer |
| BLACK Sea, ancient territory on east coast of the | 1 answer |
| BLACK Sea, territory on east coast of the (ancient) | 1 answer |
| CIRCE, homeland of | 1 answer |
| GOLDEN Fleece land | 1 answer |
| Land of the Golden Fleece | 1 answer |
| MEDEA, homeland of | 1 answer |
| MEDEA, native land of | 1 answer |
| PASIPHAE, homeland of | 1 answer |
| PERSES, homeland of | 1 answer |
| Black Sea country | 19 answers |
| ancient country | 35 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLCHIS (5)
The old Hellens said that it hung in Colchis, which we call the Circassian coast, nailed to a beech-tree in the war-God’s wood; and that it was the fleece of the wondrous ram who bore Phrixus and Helle across the Euxine sea.
And at last, they say, he stopped at Colchis, on the steep Circassian coast; and there Phrixus married Chalciope, the daughter of Aietes the king; and offered the ram in sacrifice; and Aietes nailed the ram’s fleece to a beech, in the grove of Ares the war-God.
PART IV HOW THE ARGONAUTS SAILED TO COLCHIS And what happened next, my children, whether it be true or not, stands written in ancient songs, which you shall read for yourselves some day.
Better to settle there, and build a city, and let Aietes and Colchis help themselves.’ Then a murmur rose among the Colchi, and some cried ‘He has spoken well;’ and some, ‘We have had enough of roving, we will sail the seas no more!’ And the chief said at last, ‘Be it so, then; a plague she has been to us, and a plague to the house of her father, and a plague she will be to you.
The first and second books are taken up with the history of the voyage to Colchis, while the fourth book describes the return voyage.
Quotes with COLCHIS (1)
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.""It was probably important to her.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).