Crossword-Solution: SESTOS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SESTOS | anagram | OSSETS, STOSSE, TOSSES |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SESTOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hero lived here | 1 answer |
| Hero-Leander locale | 1 answer |
| Locale of Hero-Leander legend. | 1 answer |
| Ruined town on the Dardanelles | 1 answer |
| Scene of Hero and Leander story. | 1 answer |
| Town on the Hellespont | 1 answer |
| Where Leander swam to Hero. | 1 answer |
| Where Xerxes crossed the Hellespont | 1 answer |
| THRACIAN city/town | 8 answers |
| DARDANELLES END | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZEACM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SESTOS (5)
Thus of old (If fame be true) the boastful Persian king Prepared a way across the rapid strait 'Twixt Sestos and Abydos, and made one The European and the Trojan shores; And marched upon the waters, wind and storm Counting as nought, but trusting his emprise To one frail bridge, so that his ships might pass Through middle Athos.
Nor these Alone died; for the might of Sthenelus Down on them hurled Cabeirus' corse, who came From Sestos, keen to fight the Argive foe, But never saw his fatherland again.
Leander, he would have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos.
The stream made us three paces apart; but the Hellespont where Xerxes passed it—a curb still on all human pride—endured not more hatred from Leander for swelling between Sestos and Abydos, than that from me because it opened not then.
Xanthippus however, the Athenian commander, seized the opportunity to recover from the Persians the Thracian Chersonese, which had long been an Athenian possession; and proceeded to blockade Sestos, the key of the strait.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1947–1993).