Meaning of Gades | Babel Free

Definitions

1. modern Cádiz, originally a Phoenician colony in Hispania Baetica on an island of the same name
   declension-3
2. an end or limit (from its location at the south-western extremity of Spain, on the edge of the Old World)
   declension-3, figuratively

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Examples

“You may possess a more extensive dominion by con- trolling a craving disposition, than if you could unite Libya to the distant Gades, and the natives of either Carthage were subject to you alone.”

“So Hamilcar left his design of war concealed in his secret heart, and made for Calpe and Gades, the limit of the world; but, while carrying the standards of Africa to the Pillars of Hercules, he fell in a hard-fought battle.”

“In all the lands which lie from Gades even to the land of the morn and the Ganges, few are able to re-move the clouds of prejudice, and to discern those things which are really for their good, and those which are directly the contrary.”

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