Propontis : Greek for ‘fore-sea’; enlightened Europeans renamed it Sea of Marmora.
... by a voice in my soul I will go forth tonight from this city Fleeing the doom and bearing my treasures; the ships shall receive them Gathered, new-keeled by my care and the gods', in the narrow Propontis. Over God's waters guided, treading the rage of Poseidon, Bellying out with their sails let them cleave to the untravelled distance Ocean's crests and resign to their Fates the doomed and the evil ...
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