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Serbonian Bog (Arabic: ) relates to the lake of Serbonis ( Sirbonis or Serbon ) in Egypt. Because sand blew onto it, the Serbonian Bog had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a b...
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Serbonian - Definition of Serbonian at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Serbonian. Word of the Day and Crossword Puzzles. ... Use serbonian in a Sentence...
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Posted by 020033 under Austintacious, Clearly erroneous, God Bless Texas, I wish I hadn't read that, Sad reality, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot; [3] Comments ... Home About sophistry, Milton, Serbonia, and blogging Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog © A vaguely legally-tinged ode to arcana...
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1993) (1674) (describing the land beyond Lethe as “A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog / Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, / Where armies whole have sunk”) (emphasis added); see also Brazos River Auth. ... Which is, of course, little better than a sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog.
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Definition of Serbonian in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Serbonian. Pronunciation of Serbonian. Translations of Serbonian. Serbonian synonyms, Serbonian antonyms. Information about Serbonian in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... he passed marshes like the Serbonian bog,* where armies whole have sunk;
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The Serbonian bog was between Egypt and Palestine. Strabo calls it a lake, and says it was 200 stadia long, and 50 broad; Pliny makes it 150 miles in length. Hume says that whole armies have been lost therein. Typhon lay at the bottom of this bog, which was therefore called Typhon’s Breathing Hole.
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Recent Posts from Sophistic Miltonian Serbonian Blog© ... Y’all may have noticed I haven’t posted in the past few weeks, and my absence has been due in part to vacation, and in part due to other considerations as well (read billable hours). Accordingly,…...
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all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that SERBONIAN Bog ; Betwixt DAMIATA and mount CASIUS old, Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air; Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of Fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd ;
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Free Online Library: Supreme Court wades into ERISA's 'Serbonian bog' again.(agrees to hear Aetna Health, Inc. v. Davila) by "Trial"; ... ; The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to answer a question that has bedeviled lawyers, judges, and legislators for more than a decade: ... The answer, expected to come this summer,
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Serbonian Bog, a quagmire in Egypt in which armies were fabled to be swallowed up and lost; applied to any situation in which one is entangled from which extrication is difficult.
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