pori

Updated: May 1, 2025

They at length ceased altogether to see each other. Yet there was between them a tacit compact like that between the hereditary guests in the Iliad: "'Egkhea d' allelon aleometha kai di' dmilon. Polloi men gar emoi Troes kleitoi t' epikouroi Kteinein on ke theos ge pori kai possi kikheio Polloi d' au soi Akhaioi enairmen, on ke duneai."

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2

And because he exercised himself also in the things of architecture, by order of the sixty aforesaid citizens he reconducted under the walls of Arezzo the water that comes from the foot of the hill of Pori, three hundred braccia distant from the city.

Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects : Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi

Their first care was to send for the master's mate, who had escaped to the island of Pori, and had been left behind when the whale-boat came down to the rock. He and his companions had exhausted all the fresh water, but lived on the sheep and goats, which they caught among the rocks, and had drank their blood.

Anonymous - Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy : A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.