"Cypriote" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in its peril[1] was wont to believe that the beautiful Cypriote[2] revolving in the third epicycle rayed out mad love; wherefore the ancient people in their ancient error not only unto her did honor with sacrifice and with votive cry, but they honored Dione[3] also and Cupid, the ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise [Paradiso] • Dante Alighieri
... Turkish pashas had stripped their fleet of thousands of fighting-men to employ them in the trenches. But the golden opportunity passed by, and when at last Colonna took his galleys across to the coast of Asia Minor, Nicosia had fallen, and the Turks had begun the siege of the other Cypriote fortress, Famagusta. ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale |
