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743 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *u, entry u(pnodo/ths
   Smyrna):—a form (20.43)

2. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *k, entry klei/s
   (Smyrna, iii B.C.); of a sacred key carried in processions, (Panamara, iv A.D.), (Smyrna, perh. (19.76)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter M
   This supposition is confirmed by our more accurate knowledge of the site of ancient Smyrna, which was on the north of the bay, while new Smyrna was on the south of it, at a distance of 20 stadia from the former; the site of the ancient place is still marked by a few ruins; and close by them flows the clear stream which we must assume to be the ancient Meles. (19.76)

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2 from Renaissance Materials

1. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background
   The dispute which the poetinterrupts, the difference of opinion about Pella, the appearance of the Spirit, are all located at Sardis by Plutarch, but he separates them from each other; the news of Portia's death is undated, the quarrel about money matters took place at Smyrna, and other traits are derived from various quarters. (3.50)

2. M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background
   Previously with reference to the first meeting of the fugitives after they collected their armies and before they came to Sardis at all, Plutarch narrates: Whilst Brutus and Cassius were together in the citie of Smyrna: Brutus prayed Cassius to let him have some part of his money whereof he had great store, bicause all that he could rappe and rend of his side, he had bestowed it in making so great a number of shippes, that by meanes of them they should keepe all the sea at their commaundement.
   (1.41)

38 from The Bolles Collection on the History of London

1. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter R, entry 27106
   traveller and author; B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1650; secretary in Turkish embassy of Heneage Finch, second earl of Winchilsea [q. v.], 1661; consul of Levant Company at Smyrna, 1667; published ‘Present State of Ottoman Empire,’ 1668, and ‘History of Turkish Empire, 1623-77,’ 1679; knighted and sworn privy councillor and judge of admiralty in Ireland, 1685; appointed resident in Hamburg and the Hanse Towns, 1689; recalled, 1700; F.R.S., 1666; translated from the Spanish; his portrait painted by Lely. [l. 38] (5.73)

2. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter M, entry 19446
   surgeon; son of Norman Macleod the elder [q. v.]; studied medicine at Glasgow (M.D., 1853), Paris, and Vienna; senior surgeon of the civil hospital at Smyrna during the Crimean war; regius professor of surgery, Glasgow, 1869; knighted, 1887. [xxxv. (4.30)

3. Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome alphabetic letter C, entry 6156
   novelist; entered Westminster School, 1722; consul at Smyrna; East India Company's servant at Bombay, 1736; wandered over Europe; published his first novel, ‘Fanny Hill,’ 1750; pensioned; journalist in London, 1757; published novels and dramatic pieces. [xi. (4.19)

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12 from American Memory: California

1. Between the gates. By Benjamin F. Taylor page 167
   I sat under the vine and fig-tree of a friend--it was a Smyrna fig and full of fruit, and I fancied I was in Smyrna. (9.80)

2. To and fro in southern California /Emma H. Adams page 112
   The White Smyrna having been longest known has the widest reputation and readiest market. (3.68)

3. From East Prussia to the Golden Gate, by Frank Lecouvreur; letters and diary of the California pioneer, edited in memory of her noble husband, by Mrs. Josephine Rosana Lecouvreur; translated and compiled by Julius C. Behnke page 282
   This is particularly true of the Koszta affair in Smyrna. (3.41)

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43 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Medical history of Michigan: Volume I page 291
   Dr. Wilbur Fisher, the pioneer physician in Smyrna, made is appearance in 1848 and directly upon his coming bestirred himself in the matter of providing a post-office” and suggested the name Smyrna—why is not known. (12.06)

2. Michigan biographies, including Members of Congress, elective state officers, Justices of the Supreme Court, Members of the Michigan Legislature, Board of Regents of the University of Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and State Board of Education page 263
   On coming to Michigan he located at Smyrna, Ionia County, where he remained until 1875, when he removed to Belding, where he engaged in the mercantile business, and in real estate and insurance; president of the Belding Building and Loan Association and director in the Belding Savings Bank; had a large interest in the Lansing Pants and Overall Company of Lansing, Mich. (6.35)

3. Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1863/1864, embracing historical and descriptive sketches of all the cities, towns and villages throughout the state page 581
   Purdy J. B., Smyrna (5.44)

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7 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Jacob Frey, Reminiscences of Baltimore, page 236
   The jail at Smyrna was a poor affair, made of mud walls, and we could easily have gotten out of it. (5.03)

2. J. Thomas Scharf, The chronicles of Baltimore : being a complete history of “Baltimore town” and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time / by J. Thomas Scharf page 368
   Brig Fire-Fly, from Smyrna for London, with a full cargo of drugs, wines and silks, was brought into Wilmington, N. C., by the Sabine of Baltimore. (4.78)

3. Daniel Mallory, Short stories and reminiscences of the last fifty. By an old traveller. Vol 2 page 210
   It is not of course known how the news was communicated to other settlements; but the fact was known to all Smyrna, that a vast assemblage of these birds were congregated on the plains of Bonabat, about six miles from that city. (4.09)

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435 from Beazley Archive

1. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 18317
   TURKEY, SMYRNA (10.40)

2. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 18072
   Smyrna, Excavation, 134 (9.63)

3. Beazley Archive Pottery Database entry 19064
   Smyrna, Excavation, 162 (9.63)

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4 from Boyle Work Diaries

1. Ben Coates, Charles Littleton, Michael Hunter, The Work-diaries of Robert Boyle: Biographical and Bibliographical Register entry Rycaut, Sir Paul
   From 1667 to 1678 he was consul for the Levant Company at Smyrna, and his observations there are recorded in -4. (3.88)

2. Robert Boyle (1627-91), Work-diary XXXVI (Accounts of conversations with travellers and virtuosi on natural phenomena, 1685-91) entry 24
   I askt if ever he us'd any sponge with oyle in his Mouth; it was answered he did not, being bred from a childe in the Isle of Samos of whichwhence he was a native and where their chief trade to dive fetch up sponges from the bottom of the sea which is there very deep, in so much that he was sometimes forc'd to dive 40 fathom to come att them or 50 if not 60 fathoms to come att them he us'd no weight to help him to sink but throw himself into the sea with his head downwards and his heels upward he said he could see, tho not far yet clearly enough in the bottom of the sea att Smyrna, but things appeared to him him as if he saw them thorough a glass, I askt whither his Eyes were red to which the Consul answer'd, that he observed no such thinge, but that his eyes lookt strangely, as if they had been cas'd over with glass, and he complained being att the bottom that he was not able to shut his eye lids. (2.19)

3. Robert Boyle (1627-91), Work-diary XXXVI (Accounts of conversations with travellers and virtuosi on natural phenomena, 1685-91) entry 24
   The same Gentleman told me, that his being att Smyrna, a boat of divers Tuns of Tin & Lead in it that were to be caried to shoare had a plank unfortunately beaten out of it wh and sunk in a place where the sea was 7 faddom and ½ a half deep (that is 45 foot deep), to recover which boat they had a greek diver without the help of any instrument went down to the Bottom of the Sea several times and fasten'd crooked Irons to it, by the help of which it was recovered. (1.52)

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