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Bithynia
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Bithynia
[bəthin′ē·ə]
a genus of snails, species of which act as intermediate hosts to Opisthorchis.

Bithynia
a genus of snails that act as intermediate hosts for the miracidia of the Opisthorchis spp. of bile duct flukes.


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he writes: 'The ivory body of the Bithynian slave rots in the green ooze of the Nile, and on the yellow hills of the Cerameicus is strewn the dust of the young Athenian; but Antinous lived in sculpture, and Charmides in philosophy.
His opera In the Pasha's Garden had been performed at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in 1935, and he thought it was high time that he compose another, which was to be based on the Roman Emperor Hadrian's love affair with Antinous, the Bithynian youth who drowned in the Nile.
After he complied, the Roman proconsul in the region, one Manius Aquilius, encouraged the new Bithynian ruler to invade the Pontic lands.
 
 
 
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