place
Crete
also: Cretam
The large Aegean island 'famed for its hundred cities,' a place of refuge in flight.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.15 Cnosian reed
Cretan (Cnossian) arrows; the Cretans were famed archers.
- The Odes §1.26 Cretan sea
The sea into which Horace bids the winds carry his fears.
- The Odes §3.27 Crete
'Mighty with its hundred cities,' where the abducted Europa wakes to her shame.
- The Epodes §9 Crete
The great island 'famed for its hundred cities,' one possible refuge for the beaten Antony.