place
the Aegean Sea
Aegean
also: Aegaeum
The Aegean between Greece and Asia Minor, studded with islands; named with the Adriatic and Ionian among the waters the great landowners would engross.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.89.20 Aegean
The island-strewn sea between Greece and Asia Minor; its islands, 'dwellings of great captains,' reckoned cheap by the over-rich.