Get to know Issus better with 7 real example sentences, the meaning.
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Issus meaning
An ancient settlement in Cilicia, modern Hatay Province, Turkey, where in 333 BCE Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
Synonyms of Issus
Using Issus
- The main meaning on this page is: An ancient settlement in Cilicia, modern Hatay Province, Turkey, where in 333 BCE Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III.
- Useful related words include: battle of issus, pitched battle.
- In the example corpus, issus often appears in combinations such as: of issus, at issus.
Context around Issus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Issus
- In this selection, "issus" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 32.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hanging and darius stand out and add context to how "issus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include alexanderтащ at issus hanging in and as at issus he turned. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "issus" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with issus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Though outmanoeuvered by Darius' significantly larger army, he marched back to Cilicia, where he defeated Darius at Issus. (18 words)
Darius did not actually take the field against Alexander’s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC. (27 words)
During the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814, the Prussians captured the Ch├вteau de Saint-Cloud and reportedly found тАШThe Battle of AlexanderтАЩ at Issus hanging in Napoleon’s bathroom. (32 words)
It is told by Arrian that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces under Alexander’s attack and Darius, in his war-chariot, saw that it was cut off, he incontinently fled – indeed, he led the race for safety. (45 words)
His rather atypical Battle of Issus (or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich. (37 words)
John Prevas, Envy of the Gods: Alexander's Ill-Fated Journey across Asia (Da Capo Press, 2004), 47. At the Battle of Issus, Darius III even caught Alexander by surprise and failed to defeat Alexander's forces. (37 words)
Example sentences (7)
During the War of the Sixth Coalition in 1814, the Prussians captured the Ch├вteau de Saint-Cloud and reportedly found тАШThe Battle of AlexanderтАЩ at Issus hanging in Napoleon’s bathroom.
Darius did not actually take the field against Alexander’s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the Battle of Issus in 333 BC.
His rather atypical Battle of Issus (or of Alexander ) of 1529 was commissioned by William IV, Duke of Bavaria as part of a series of eight historical battle scenes destined to hang in the Residenz in Munich.
It is told by Arrian that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces under Alexander’s attack and Darius, in his war-chariot, saw that it was cut off, he incontinently fled – indeed, he led the race for safety.
John Prevas, Envy of the Gods: Alexander's Ill-Fated Journey across Asia (Da Capo Press, 2004), 47. At the Battle of Issus, Darius III even caught Alexander by surprise and failed to defeat Alexander's forces.
Prevas 48 Another source accounts that when Darius perceived the fierce attack of Alexander, as at Issus he turned his chariot around, and was the first to flee, Ulrich Wilcken, Alexander the Great.
Though outmanoeuvered by Darius' significantly larger army, he marched back to Cilicia, where he defeated Darius at Issus.
Common combinations with issus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of issus 4×
- at issus 3×