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Syrtes
the Syrtes
also: the Syrtes, Syrtium
The treacherous sandbanks off the North African coast, a byword for hazard, here named among the barriers that do not separate the freed souls.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §57 Libyan Syrtes
The treacherous shoal-waters off the Libyan coast, a byword for a raging sea.
- Consolation to Marcia §25 Syrtes
The treacherous sandbanks off the North African coast, a byword for hazard, named among the barriers that no longer separate the freed souls.
- On the Happy Life §14.1 Syrtic sea
The Syrtes, two treacherous gulfs of shifting sandbars off the North African coast, proverbial for shipwreck; a figure for the man tossed between the lack and the glut of pleasure.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.31.9 Syrtes
The two great sandbanks and gulfs off the North African coast (the Greater and Lesser Syrtis), notorious among sailors as a graveyard of ships.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.17 Syrtic
Peoples of the Syrtes, the desert coast of north Africa (modern Libya), who shelter underground from the heat.
- Phaedra §564 Syrtis
The treacherous shoals off the North African coast, a byword for danger to ships.