Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Chalcis   Listen
Chalcis

noun
1.
Type genus of the Chalcididae.  Synonym: genus Chalcis.



Related search:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Chalcis" Quotes from Famous Books



... But Sulla hastened back, too, after leaving Hortensius to support Murena, and, when he appeared, the right wing drove back Archelaus to the Cephissus. Murena was equally triumphant on the left wing, and the barbarians fled pell-mell to the Cephissus, only 10,000 of them reaching Chalcis in Euboea. [Sidenote: Sulla's falsehood about the battle.] Appian says the Romans lost only thirteen men, while Plutarch, on the authority of Sulla's Memoirs, says that they lost four. This is absurd. Sulla seems to have told some startling lies in his Memoirs, perhaps to prove that ...
— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley



Words linked to "Chalcis" :   Chalcidae, family Chalcididae, Chalcididae, chalcis fly, family Chalcidae, arthropod genus



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org