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Greek capital   /grik kˈæpətəl/   Listen
Greek capital

noun
1.
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



Words linked to "Greek capital" :   Ellas, Plato, national capital, Parthenon, Dipylon gate, Hellenic Republic, Athenian, Areopagus, Athinai, Dipylon, Greece, Athens, capital of Greece



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