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Samothrace

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Sam·o·thrace  (sm-thrs) or Sam·o·thrá·ki (sämô-thräk)
An island of northeast Greece in the northeast Aegean Sea off the coast of European Turkey. The Winged Victory of Samothrace, now at the Louvre in Paris, was sculpted c. 200 b.c. and found on the island in 1863.
Samothrace [ˈsæməˌθreɪs]
n
(Placename) a Greek island in the NE Aegean Sea: mountainous. Pop.: 4000 (latest est.)
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But Dardanus came to the coast of the mainland -- from him Erichthonius and thereafter Tros were sprung, and Ilus, and Assaracus, and godlike Ganymede, -- when he had left holy Samothrace in his many-benched ship.
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But King Neptune had kept no blind look-out; he had been looking admiringly on the battle from his seat on the topmost crests of wooded Samothrace, whence he could see all Ida, with the city of Priam and the ships of the Achaeans.
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