A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... Grecian and Roman literature . The sketches of ancient mathematicians , and of other individuals eminent for their attainments in science , will not be found with- out interest even in our own day . Nor will the medical man depart ...
... Grecian and Roman literature . The sketches of ancient mathematicians , and of other individuals eminent for their attainments in science , will not be found with- out interest even in our own day . Nor will the medical man depart ...
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... Grecian Antiquities , and it will be found far superior to the labours of Arbuthnot , as given in the Dictionary of Lempriere . Before concluding , the author must express his grateful obligations to his friend , Fran- cis Adams , Esq ...
... Grecian Antiquities , and it will be found far superior to the labours of Arbuthnot , as given in the Dictionary of Lempriere . Before concluding , the author must express his grateful obligations to his friend , Fran- cis Adams , Esq ...
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... Grecian writers , and according to which , Perses , son of Perseus and Andromeda , was the first of the line , and the individual from whom the Persians derived their national appella- tion , is purely fabulous . Eschylus ( Pers . 762 ) ...
... Grecian writers , and according to which , Perses , son of Perseus and Andromeda , was the first of the line , and the individual from whom the Persians derived their national appella- tion , is purely fabulous . Eschylus ( Pers . 762 ) ...
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... Grecian camp , and Calchas , encouraged by the proffered protection of Achilles , ventured to attribute it to Agamemnon's detention of the daughter of Chryses , whom her father had endeavoured to ran- som , but in vain The monarch ...
... Grecian camp , and Calchas , encouraged by the proffered protection of Achilles , ventured to attribute it to Agamemnon's detention of the daughter of Chryses , whom her father had endeavoured to ran- som , but in vain The monarch ...
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... Grecian origin . Thucyd- ides ( 7 , 58 ) , in enumerating the allies of Syracuse , speaks of the people of Himera as forming the only Grecian settlement on the northern coast of Sicily ; and in another part ( 7 , 57 ) , expressly ...
... Grecian origin . Thucyd- ides ( 7 , 58 ) , in enumerating the allies of Syracuse , speaks of the people of Himera as forming the only Grecian settlement on the northern coast of Sicily ; and in another part ( 7 , 57 ) , expressly ...
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