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plural syrtes
(archaic) Synonym of quicksand.
(archaic) Synonym of bog. quotations
... Quenched in a boggy syrtis, neither sea Nor good dry land ...
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,