A.sea of Helle (daughter of Athamas, who was drowned therein), now the Dardanelles, Il.2.845, Hdt. 4.38, etc.:—sts. taken to include the Propontis, Id.1.57, etc.:—the adjacent country, Th.2.9, etc.: in this sense without Art. in Att. Inscrr., IG12.106.16, al.: said to be used of the Aegean, Str.7 Fr. 58.
Ἑλλήσ-ποντος , ὁ, Hellespont or
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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