Crossword-Solution: SARONIC 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The cutting of the Isthmus of Corinth was proposed in Nero's reign, and actually commenced in his presence; but abandoned because it was asserted that the level of the water in the Corinthian Gulf was higher than that in the Saronic Gulf, so that, if the canal were cut, the island of Aegina would be submerged.

Then he went over the hills toward Megara, keeping close along the Saronic Sea, till he came to the cliffs of Sciron, and the narrow path between the mountain and the sea.

The appearance of a Persian fleet in the Saronic gulf was a strange sight to Grecian eyes, and one which might have served as a severe comment on the effect of their suicidal wars.

Neither of them had read many pages, but as the strong radiance began to soften about them on the height, and the breeze from the Saronic Gulf came to them with a more feathery warmth and freshness over the smiling bareness of the Attic Plain, Dion, who had been half-dreamily turning the leaves of his little book, said: “Rosamund.” “Yes?” “Look at the sea and the mountains of Trigania, those far-off mountains”--he pointed--“and the outpost of Hydra.” She looked and said nothing.

From the Acropolis and a few lesser hills close by, the land sloped gently down towards the harbors and the Saronic Bay.