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Caria

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Car·i·a  (kâr-)
An ancient region of southwest Asia Minor with a coastline on the Aegean Sea. It was settled by Dorian and Ionian colonists and conquered by Alexander the Great in 334 b.c.
Caria [ˈkɛərɪə]
n
(Placename) an ancient region of SW Asia Minor, on the Aegean Sea: chief cities were Halicarnassus and Cnidus: corresponds to the present-day Turkish districts of S Aydin and W Muǧla


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As when some woman of Meonia or Caria strains purple dye on to a piece of ivory that is to be the cheek-piece of a horse, and is to be laid up in a treasure house--many a knight is fain to bear it, but the king keeps it as an ornament of which both horse and driver may be proud--even so, O Menelaus, were your shapely thighs and your legs down to your fair ancles stained with blood.
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