Examples of using "Creta" in a sentence and their english translations:
Crete is an island.
"Not here thy destined seat, / so saith the Delian god, not thine the shores of Crete."
Loud rise the shouts of sailors to the sky; / "Crete and our fathers", rings for all to hear / the cry of oarsmen.
"Thence Corybantian cymbals clashed and brayed / in praise of Cybele. In Ida's wood / her mystic rites in secrecy were paid, / and lions, yoked in pomp, their sovereign's car conveyed."
The two-fold race Anchises understands, / the double sires, and owns himself misled / by modern error 'twixt two ancient lands.
"Jove's island lies, amid the deep enshrined, / Crete, hundred-towned, a land of corn and wine, / where Ida's mountain stands, the cradle of our line."