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Calpe   Listen
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Calpe  n.  The Rock of Gibraltar, a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; associated with Britain.
Synonyms: Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar.






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"Calpe" Quotes from Famous Books



... his father's stream he dwelt with his mother, pasturing his flocks by the shore. And quickly they sighted and sailed past his shrine and the broad banks of the river and the plain, and deep-flowing Calpe, and all the windless night and the day they bent to their tireless oars. And even as ploughing oxen toil as they cleave the moist earth, and sweat streams in abundance from flank and neck; and from beneath the yoke their eyes roll ...
— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... it was called Mount Calpe, by Gerald's friends the Romans; who called the hill opposite there Mount Abyla, and the two together the Pillars of Hercules. But beyond giving it a name, they don't seem to have concerned themselves with it; nor do the Phoenicians or Carthaginians, though all of them had cities out ...
— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... belonging to a giant with three bodies called Geryon, who lived in the isle of Erythria, in the outmost ocean. Passing Lybia, Hercules came to the end of the Mediterranean Sea, Neptune's domain, and there set up two pillars—namely, Mounts Calpe and Abyla—on each side of the Straits of Gibraltar. The rays of the sun scorched him, and in wrath he shot at it with his arrows, when Helios, instead of being angry, admired his boldness, and gave him ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various



Words linked to "Calpe" :   Europe, headland, Rock of Gibraltar, head, foreland, Pillars of Hercules, Gibraltar, colony, promontory, settlement, Gibraltarian



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