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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... brother of Me- dea , who , according to one account was killed here . ( Hygin . 23. - Strabo , 315. - Mela , 2 , 7. - Pliny , 3 , 26. ) Apollonius Rhodius ( 4 , 330 ) calls them Brygeïdes , and states ( v . 470 ) that there was in one ...
... brother of Me- dea , who , according to one account was killed here . ( Hygin . 23. - Strabo , 315. - Mela , 2 , 7. - Pliny , 3 , 26. ) Apollonius Rhodius ( 4 , 330 ) calls them Brygeïdes , and states ( v . 470 ) that there was in one ...
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... brother of Croesus , as its founder . This last is more proba- bly the true account , especially as an adjacent district bore the name of Lydia . According , however , to Eu- stathius and other commentators , the place existed be- fore ...
... brother of Croesus , as its founder . This last is more proba- bly the true account , especially as an adjacent district bore the name of Lydia . According , however , to Eu- stathius and other commentators , the place existed be- fore ...
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... brother of Asgard , or Asa - gard , the old northern term for " heav- Atreus , an act which was punished so horridly by the en . " It is curious to observe that Os in Coptic like- injured husband . ( Vid . Atreus and Thyestes . ) Ac ...
... brother of Asgard , or Asa - gard , the old northern term for " heav- Atreus , an act which was punished so horridly by the en . " It is curious to observe that Os in Coptic like- injured husband . ( Vid . Atreus and Thyestes . ) Ac ...
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... brother Aminias , to whose extraordinary valour the porcia were decreed . ( Herod . , 8 , 93. — Elian , Var . Hist . , 5 , 19. ) In the following year he served in the Athenian troops at Platea . Eight years afterward ( Argument . ad ...
... brother Aminias , to whose extraordinary valour the porcia were decreed . ( Herod . , 8 , 93. — Elian , Var . Hist . , 5 , 19. ) In the following year he served in the Athenian troops at Platea . Eight years afterward ( Argument . ad ...
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... brother cut off his head in order to prevent discov- ery . After this , Trophonius was swallowed up in an opening of the earth , in the grove of Lebedea . The whole story appears to wear a figurative character . Erginus is the protector ...
... brother cut off his head in order to prevent discov- ery . After this , Trophonius was swallowed up in an opening of the earth , in the grove of Lebedea . The whole story appears to wear a figurative character . Erginus is the protector ...
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