Europa seated on a bull (Jupiter in disguise), in fresco from Pompeii, 1st century AD.The world according to Herodotus showingEuropa near the top of the map.
BrevisEuropae descriptio.—Europa terminos habet, ab oriente Tanain et Maeotida et Pontum; a meridie reliqua nostri maris; ab occidente Atlanticum; a septentrione Britannicum oceanum.(genitive and nomitive cases)
A brief description ofEurope.—Europe's borders, on the east are Tanais, Maeotida, and Pontus; on the south, the rest of our sea; on the west, the side of the Atlantic; north of the British Ocean.
ca. 415,Martianus Capella,De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, book 6, section 661:
Quartus vero et magnusEuropae sinus ab Hellesponto incipiens Maeotis ostio terminatur. Nam arctum mare interEuropam et Asiam in angustias septem stadiorum interfluens coarctatur; quas angustias Hellespontum dicunt, ubi Xerxes Persidis rex aggregatis navibus ponteque constructo exercitum duxit.(genitive and accusative cases)
The fourth and great bay ofEurope, beginning from the Hellespont, terminates at the mouth of the Maeotis. For the narrow sea flowing betweenEurope and Asia is confined to a narrow strip of seven furlongs; which they call the narrows of the Hellespont, where Xerxes, king of the Persians, assembled his ships and led his army under a bridge.
Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “Europa”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Europa”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
2005, Wagner Blini, vários autores,Salvando Vida - Com Medicina Natural, Editora DCL,→ISBN,page215:
O abacate é uma fruta de sabor suave e gosto agradável, nem doce e nem amargo. O sabor neutro, aliado à polpa carnuda e macia, faz dele um dos ingredientes mais versáteis da culinária popular. NaEuropa e na América Central, o abacate é um importante ingrediente para saladas.
2014, Venceslau de Morais,Paisagens da China e do Japão, Projecto Adamastor,→ISBN,page97:
O shogun, generalíssimo do imperador, com residência em Yedo, assinara por conta própria tratados de amizade e de comércio com a América e com aEuropa, e os estrangeiros, em Yokohama, pisavam já afoitamente o solo japonês.
(continent)Europe(the portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean)
Europe(the portion of Eurasia west of the Urals, traditionally considered a continent in its own right, located north of Africa, west of Asia and east of the Atlantic Ocean)
