Associations to the word «Issus»

Wiktionary

ISSUS, proper noun. (historical) an ancient settlement in Cilicia where in 333 BC Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III

Dictionary definition

ISSUS, noun. A battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope