Citations:Aethalia

English citations of Æthalia

• 1831, Aaron Arrowsmith, A Compendium of Ancient and Modern Geography, page 432:

  It was formerly called Æthalia, Hypsipyle from a Lemnian queen of that name, and Dipolis from it’s two chief towns. These were Hephæstia Cochino, on the Eastern side of the island, and Myrina Lemnos, on the Western; […]

• 1851, William Smith (author), Charles Anthon (editor), A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 198/1 s.v. “Chĭos”:

  It is said to have borne, in the earliest times, the various names of Æthalia, Macris, and Pityusa, and to have been inhabited by Tyrrhenian Pelasgians and Leleges.

• 1855 January, M. (abbreviated name), “Three Months in the Holy Land” in The Journal of Sacred Literature, New Series, volume VII, № 14, chapter i: ‘Departure from Smyrna — Chios — Samos — Rhodes — Cyprus — and Beyrût’, page 313:

  There stood before us that famous Chios, extolled by historians of old, and sung by every poet of the day; for her fame was great, and her names were many. Æthalia, from the brightness of the soil in which the son of Ariadne first planted the vine; Macrys, from her length; and lastly Chios, so called of Phœnician settlers, attracted by the charm of her climate and the richness of her soil, on which ripened the fragrant gum of the mastich-tree, the finest wheat, delicious figs, and, above all, the full and luscious grape of Arvisia.