| 单词 | straits of hercules |
| 释义 | > as lemmasStraits of Hercules c. Pillars of Hercules, Hercules' Pillars: the rocks Calpé (now Gibraltar) and Abyla (Ceuta), on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, thought by the ancients to be the supports of the western boundary of the world, and to have been set up by Hercules; so Straits of Hercules. Hence figurative, an ultimate limit, the ne plus ultra. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 298 To þe see Gaditanus, þere Hercules his pileres stondeþ. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 87 We must laie before us the noble devise of Charles the fifth, to wit, the pillers of Hercules, and to dispose ourselves to goe beyond them. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 A parochiall Minister, who has his reward, and is at his Hercules pillars in a warm benefice. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii The Mediterranean squadron..was vainly struggling to pass the pillars of Hercules. < as lemmas |
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