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Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

The narrow strait between Boeotia and Euboea, whose unfavorable calm keeps the Greek fleet stranded at Aulis.

For this delay at the Euripus is not the same for all of us;

The birds are still at any rate and the sea is calm, hushed are the winds, and silence broods over the Euripus.

Though I have left Pharsalia, and Peleus, still I linger here by reason of these light breezes at the Euripus, restraining my Myrmidons, while they are always pressing on me, saying:

iphigenia in aulis ¶

Iphigenia in TaurisClassical · Greek

Narrow strait near Aulis known for its swift currents, mentioned in Iphigenia's account of her journey to sacrifice.

Where Euripus rolls about its whirlpools in the frequent winds and twists the darkening waves, my father sacrificed me to Artemis for Helen’s sake, or so he thought, in the famous clefts of Aulis.

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Against DemosthenesClassical · Greek

The strait between Boeotia and Euboea, proverbial for its unpredictable currents, invoked as a metaphor for the instability of Demosthenes' political friendships.

for being perpetually unstable himself, I suppose he might well have friends from the Euripus.

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PhaedoClassical · Greek

A strait between Boeotia and Euboea, famous in antiquity for its irregular and rapidly changing tidal currents, invoked as a simile for the instability that misologists attribute to all arguments.

then you know, those men especially who have spent their time in disputation come to believe that they are the wisest of men and that they alone have discovered that there is nothing sound or sure in anything, whether argument or anything else, but all things go up and down, like the tide in the Euripus, and nothing is stable for any length of time.

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History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

The narrow strait between Euboea and Boeotia crossed by the Thracian force.

and then in the evening sailed across the Euripus from Chalcis in Euboea, and landing them in Boeotia, led them against Mycalessus.

chapter 7 ¶

These Thracians, then, who came too late for Demosthenes, as they did not, in consequence of their present want of money, wish to incur expense, they immediately sent back, having commissioned Diitrephes to convey them, and instructed him at the same time to inflict by their means whatever harm he could on the enemy during the voyage along shore, (for they were to pass through the Euripus.

chapter 7 ¶