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Greek capital

noun

The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess). Synonyms: Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece.

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... him by Ausonius. Boethius wrote his fine treatise On the Consolation of Philosophy half a century after the extinction of the Empire of the West. By a strange freak of history, it was at the Greek capital that Latin scholarship finally faded away. Priscian and Tribonian wrote at Constantinople; and the Western world received its most authoritative works on Latin grammar and Roman law, not from the Latin Empire, nor from one of the Latin-speaking kingdoms which rose on ...

— Latin Literature • J. W. Mackail

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