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Americus Vespucius   Listen
Americus Vespucius

noun
1.
Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).  Synonyms: Amerigo Vespucci, Vespucci.





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"Americus Vespucius" Quotes from Famous Books



... of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure. I walk out into a Nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America: neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in mythology than in any history of America, so called, that I ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various


Words linked to "Americus Vespucius" :   Amerigo Vespucci, navigator


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