Definitions for Pydna

Pydna Pyd·na

Spelling: [pid-nuh]
IPA: /ˈpɪd nə/

Pydna is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Pydna (adnpy).

Definitions for Pydna

noun

  1. a town in ancient Macedonia, W of the Gulf of Salonika: decisive Roman victory over the Macedonians 186 b.c.

Examples for Pydna

Methone is situated in the middle, about 40 stadia distant from Pydna, and 70 stadia from Alorus.

One dark night, through a secret doorway in the city wall, a little party crept softly out of Pydna and went down toward the port.

Perseus fled from Pydna to Pella, his cavalry having, as one would expect, all got safe out of the action.

But it is clear that, under Alexander, the phalanx was not the cumbrous unwieldy body which it was at Cynoscephalae and Pydna.

Alorus is considered as belonging to Bottiæa and Pydna to Pieria.

But as he was progressing toward Pydna he fell short of provisions and turned back to Thessaly.

Cassander at once marched against Olympias, and, having forced her to surrender in Pydna, put her to death .

From Pydna he sailed in a merchant ship to the coast of Asia Minor.

Themistocles was taken by two guides safely across the mountains to Pydna, where he found a merchant ship about to sail for Asia.

Methone is distant from Pydna 40 stadia, and 70 stadia from Alorus.

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