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 Cimmer’ian Bos’phorus.Cinoho’na 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cimmer’ian Darkness.
 
Homer (possibly from some story as to the Arctic night) supposes the Cimmerians to dwell in a land “beyond the ocean-stream,” where the sun never shone. (Odys., xi. 14.)   1
       
“In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.”
       
Milton: L’Allegro.
 


 Cimmer’ian Bos’phorus.Cinoho’na 

 
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