greek fire in English
noun
1
a combustible compound emitted by a flame-throwing weapon and used to set light to enemy ships. It was first used by the Greeks besieged in Constantinople (673–78). It ignited on contact with water, and was probably based on naphtha and quicklime.
In 1139 the Second Lateran Council decreed that Greek fire and similar burning weapons were ‘too murderous ‘to be used in Europe.’
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1. Everybody breaks, and then the Sheriff will have the ledger and the Greek fire
2. This is the first known use of Greek fire in combat, which was one of the key advantages that the Byzantines possessed.
3. Constantinople could not be taken from the water side so long as the Empire’s fleet, with its secret weapon of flaming naptha or “Greek fire,” controlled the sea