Citations:tropæan


 * 1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire, chapter 2, page 44
 * The frequent rains brought by the Tropæan winds from the Irish Seas.
 * 1805, The Monthly Review (printed for R. Griffiths), page 178
 * Tropæus Jupiter, and Tropæan Juno, mean in Greek Jupiter and Juno; and here, Neptune, because on his aid the battle turned.
 * 1813, Sophocles [aut.] and R. Potter [tr.], “Antigone” (lines 156–161) in The Tragedies of Sophocles, page 142
 * At the seven gates seven Argive warriors rag’d,    But, Chief with daring Chief engag’d,  Left to Tropæan Jove their glittering spoils.    Not such th’ unhappy Brothers’ toils;    With ruthless spears and ruthless hate They rush’d victorious both, both shar’d one common fate.
 * 1898, Pausanias [aut.] and Sir James George Frazer [tr.], Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Macmillan), volume 1, page 152
 * The sanctuary of Tropaean (‘turner to flight’) Zeus was made by the Dorians after they had conquered the Amyclaeans and the rest of the Achaeans, who in those days possessed Laconia.
 * 2006, Mihail Zahariade, Scythia Minor: A History of a Later Roman Province (284–681) (Hakkert; volume 1 of Pontic Provinces of the Later Roman Empire), page 102
 * The Tropaean enclosure wall has 22 towers in all.