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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... Fable , 2 vols . 8vo , Paris , 1803 . Notitia Utraque Dignitatum , cum Orientis , tum Occi dentis , fol . , Lugd . , 1608 . Notitia Dignitatum , cura Ed . Bocking , 3 vols . 8vo , Bonn , 1839 . Numismatique Ancienne , Grecque et Romaine ...
... Fable , 2 vols . 8vo , Paris , 1803 . Notitia Utraque Dignitatum , cum Orientis , tum Occi dentis , fol . , Lugd . , 1608 . Notitia Dignitatum , cura Ed . Bocking , 3 vols . 8vo , Bonn , 1839 . Numismatique Ancienne , Grecque et Romaine ...
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... fable , still , from similarity of sound , induced the poets to connect it with the name of Medea's brother . Le principal island is Absorus , with a town of the same name . ( Ptol . 63. ) These four islands are , in modern geography ...
... fable , still , from similarity of sound , induced the poets to connect it with the name of Medea's brother . Le principal island is Absorus , with a town of the same name . ( Ptol . 63. ) These four islands are , in modern geography ...
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... fable , invented by the Greeks to magnify the expedition of Xerxes , and thus increase their own re- nown . But vestiges of the canal were visible in the time of Ælian ( H. A. 13 , 20 ) ; modern travellers also discover traces of it ...
... fable , invented by the Greeks to magnify the expedition of Xerxes , and thus increase their own re- nown . But vestiges of the canal were visible in the time of Ælian ( H. A. 13 , 20 ) ; modern travellers also discover traces of it ...
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... fable . - III . A country of the Pelo- ponnesus , lying along the Sinus Corinthiacus , north of Elis and Arcadia . A number of mountain - streams , descending from the ridges of Arcadia , watered this re- gion , but they were small in ...
... fable . - III . A country of the Pelo- ponnesus , lying along the Sinus Corinthiacus , north of Elis and Arcadia . A number of mountain - streams , descending from the ridges of Arcadia , watered this re- gion , but they were small in ...
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... Fable speaks of a contest between Hercules and the river god for the hand of Deianira . The deity of the Achelous assu- med the form of a bull , but Hercules was victorious and tore off one of his horns . His opponent , upon this ...
... Fable speaks of a contest between Hercules and the river god for the hand of Deianira . The deity of the Achelous assu- med the form of a bull , but Hercules was victorious and tore off one of his horns . His opponent , upon this ...
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