The Sea, The Sea. Comments

I REALLY CAME HERE LOOKING FOR BEACH BUNNIES! ! ! !

(cont.) What a bunch of Greek babies they were! ! ! ! ! the Marines (U.S.) would MAKE MEN OF THEM, OR they'd die in the attempt! ! ! Semper Fi! ! ! ! to MyPoemList. bri :) a Poet's Notes would have saved me (your friend! ! !) time. (:

(cont.) Thálatta! Thálatta! (Greek: Θάλαττα! θάλαττα! — The Sea! The Sea!) was the shouting of joy when the roaming 10,000 Greeks saw Euxeinos Pontos (the Black Sea) from Mount Theches (Θήχης) in Trebizond, after participating in Cyrus the Younger's failed march against the Persian Empire in the year 401 BC. ok, wrong Cyrus i had at first. (cont.)

or...did you mean my mean Uncle Cyrus? ..may he rest in! ! ! i guess i can resume reading at line #3 now. To fight another's cause which now his death had cancelled...does this and line 1 refer to the same corpse? ? (cont.)

this guy? [i found at least 4 DIFFERENT accounts online of how he died! ! ! ! ] Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian Empire. Wikipedia Born: 600 BC, Anshan, Iran Died: December 4,530 BC, Syr Darya (cont.)