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294 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *b, entry ba^si^li/s
   of Rome, ; of Constantinople, (Abydos), , , etc. (22.19)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *o, entry oi(=os
   (Abydos, v/vi A. D.) ; (15.03)

3. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *a, entry *)/abu_dos
   a dessert of Abydos, i.e. something unpleasant, variously expl., , etc. (14.27)

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1 from The Works of Christopher Marlowe

1. Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander part 1, subpart sestyad 1
   On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood,
   In view and opposit two citties stood,
   Seaborderers, disjoin'd by Neptune might:
   The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
   (2.38)

1 from Renaissance Materials

1. Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation
   And thus having spent eleven moneths in Constantinople, accompanied with a chause, & carying certaine mandates from the grand Signior to the Bassa of Aleppo for the kinde usage of our nation in those parts, the 30 of July I tooke passage in a Turkish carmosale or shippe bound for Sidon ; and passing thorow Propontis, having Salimbria with Heraclia most pleasantly situated on the right hand, and Proconesus now called Marmora on the left, we came to Gallipoly, and so by Hellespont , betweene the two castles before named called Sestos and Abydos , famous for the passages made there both by Xerxes and great Alexander, the one into Thracia , the other into Asia, and so by the Sigean Promontory, now called Cape Janitzary, at the mouth of Hellespont upon Asia side, where Troy stood, where are yet ruines of olde walles to be seene, with two hils rising in a piramidall forme, not unlikely to be the tombs of Achilles and Ajax. (2.51)

5 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 4 chapter 40, page 530
   Other early remains are derived from the great burialplace of Abydos. (2.85)

2. Walter Thornbury, A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources.: Old and New London: Volume 4 chapter 40, page 530
   In the central recess, on the east side of the gallery, is fixed the tablet of Abydos, said to be an inscription of great value in determining the names and succession of the kings of the various dynasties. (2.78)

3. Charles Knight, Guide cards to the antiquities in the British Museum guidecard 60, object 1
   They consist of mummies, idols, sculptured tablets, articles of domestic use, and other objects illustrating the manners, customs, and history of the Ancient Egyptians; principally found in tombs at Thebes, Memphis, Abydos, &c., either enclosed in the mummy-cases or placed around the body, or found ornamenting the interior of the sepulchre. (2.51)

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1 from American Memory: California

1. Narrative of Edward McGowan, including a full account of the author's adventures and perils while persecuted by the San Francisco vigilance committee of 1856 page 238
   Bride of Abydos . (3.01)

1 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Margaret (Bayard) Smith, The first forty years of Washington society, potrayed by the family letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the collection of her grandson J. Henley Smith page 97
   Mr. Ogilvie has this moment left us, he found Susan, Ann, Mrs. Cutting and myself busied with our needles; he brought a new work of Lord Byron's the “Bride of Abydos,”—he would not read it to us, but presented it to Ann who in return is hemming him some cravats. (2.78)