placeStraitPlacesA narrow water between lands. Not river as flowing fresh, and not bridge as the crossing work.Hellenic religionStrait appears in Hellenic religion.Herodotus’s histories name narrows such as the Hellespont among the waters armies and ships must cross. A named strait in that traveler’s speech, not cape as a headland and not a canal dump.from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesHistories · HerodotusHerodotus, Histories.