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Serbonian
Serbonian, a. (sɜːˈbəʊnɪən) [f. Gr. σερβωνί-ς (λίµνη) + -an.] Serbonian bog: Milton's name for Lake Serbonis in Lower Egypt, a marshy tract (now dry) covered with shifting sand. Hence used allusively.1667 Milton P.L. ii. 592 A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old,... Oxford English Dictionary
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Serbonian Bog
In 'the Serbonian bog' of this base oligarchy they are all absorbed, sunk, and lost for ever." Today's majority opinion now leads us further into the Serbonian bog. wikipedia.org
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Syrbonian
syraine, syrang, syranyze, syraphyn, Syrbonian see siren, serang, sirenize, seraphim, Serbonian.a 1618 Sylvester Maiden's Blush 1713 Past Idumæas Palmy Groves, and past Syrbonian Moors. Oxford English Dictionary
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Ras Kouroun
Herodotus (who considered it to mark the boundary between Egypt and Syria), is a small mountain and a former town near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian wikipedia.org
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Pelusium
Then begins Idumaea, and Palestine at the point where the Serbonian Lake comes into view. This lake... is now an inconsiderable fen." wikipedia.org
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bog
▪ I. bog, n.1 (bɒg) Forms: 6–7 bogg, bogge, 7 boghe, 6– bog. [ad. Ir. or Gael. bogach a bog, f. bog soft, used in composition in the sense of ‘bog’, as bog-luachair bulrush. In Scotland apparently from Gaelic, in England from Irish.] I. 1. a. A piece of wet spongy ground, consisting chiefly of decay... Oxford English Dictionary
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Baal-zephon
According to Herodotus (who considered it to mark the boundary between Egypt and Syria), at Ras Kouroun, a small mountain near the marshy Lake Bardawil, the "Serbonian wikipedia.org
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Lake Bardawil
It may be what Herodotus described as the Serbonian Bog, between Damietta and Mount Casius, in his Histories of 430BCE. wikipedia.org
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Jefferson concurred, and while the "grand avenue" was little more than a wide dirt road ridiculed as "The Great Serbonian Bog", he planted it with rows wikipedia.org
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堤丰
瑟伯尼亚湖(the Serbonian Lake)位于当时埃及和腓尼基(Phoenicia)的边境。希罗多德(Herodotus)等认为堤丰的囚牢该在彼处。但这多半源于堤丰和古埃及塞特神(Set)的关系。 更多的版本认为堤丰被压在西西里岛的爱特纳火山之下。 wikipedia.org
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Typhon
Herodutus equates with Apollo (with Osiris being equated with Dionysus), and after his defeat by Horus, Typhon was "supposed to have been hidden" in the "Serbonian wikipedia.org
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Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
The damp earned the street the nickname of the "Great Serbonian Bog." (This marshy area was filled in and dried beginning in 1816.) wikipedia.org
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Timeline of the name Palestine
"; Chapter 14: "After this, at the point where the Serbonian Bog becomes visible, Idumea and Palaestina begin. The Palestinian southern boundary is lake Serbonian. Jenysus & Jerusalem are cities of Palestine, as is Ashdod and Ashkelon. wikipedia.org
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