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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... modern Castello di Acci . Fazellus , however , without much reason , assigns the name of Acis to the Fiume Freddo , near Taormina . Sir Richard Hoare describes the Acis of Cluverius as a limpid though small stream . The story of Acis is ...
... modern Castello di Acci . Fazellus , however , without much reason , assigns the name of Acis to the Fiume Freddo , near Taormina . Sir Richard Hoare describes the Acis of Cluverius as a limpid though small stream . The story of Acis is ...
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... modern name of the place is Adri or Atri . in this sense ( ' O d''lovios KóλпоÇ μÉроÇ ¿ OTì TOŬ vvv ' Adpiov 2ɛyouévov ) . More careful writers , how- ever , and especially Polybius , give merely ó'Adpías , without any mention of its ...
... modern name of the place is Adri or Atri . in this sense ( ' O d''lovios KóλпоÇ μÉроÇ ¿ OTì TOŬ vvv ' Adpiov 2ɛyouévov ) . More careful writers , how- ever , and especially Polybius , give merely ó'Adpías , without any mention of its ...
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... modern Vajussa , falling into the Ionian Sea . Isaac Vossius , in his commentary on Pomponius Mela ( 2 , 3 , extr . ) , charges Ovid with an error in geography , in making this river fall into the Pencus ( Met . , 1 , 577 ) . But ...
... modern Vajussa , falling into the Ionian Sea . Isaac Vossius , in his commentary on Pomponius Mela ( 2 , 3 , extr . ) , charges Ovid with an error in geography , in making this river fall into the Pencus ( Met . , 1 , 577 ) . But ...
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... modern appellation appears to be a corruption of Egio Pelago , itself a modern Greek form for Alyaiov néhayoç . Various etymologies are given for the ancient name . The most common is that which deduces it from Egeus , father of Theseus ...
... modern appellation appears to be a corruption of Egio Pelago , itself a modern Greek form for Alyaiov néhayoç . Various etymologies are given for the ancient name . The most common is that which deduces it from Egeus , father of Theseus ...
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... modern times . Besides , however , being sciences , the difficulty of working iron might long applied to household purposes , they were used alsɔ for withhold the secret of its superiority over copper or the purpose of holding the ...
... modern times . Besides , however , being sciences , the difficulty of working iron might long applied to household purposes , they were used alsɔ for withhold the secret of its superiority over copper or the purpose of holding the ...
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