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 of the Greeks and Romans : Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper [& Brothers], 1869 - 1451 |
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Strona 73
... Agrippa Casaub . ) , of which the Nile formed the perpendicular ( Plin . , l . c . ) gave to this part of the world nine hun- side , extending to Ethiopia and the ocean , while the dred and ten miles of extent . This measure , which ...
... Agrippa Casaub . ) , of which the Nile formed the perpendicular ( Plin . , l . c . ) gave to this part of the world nine hun- side , extending to Ethiopia and the ocean , while the dred and ten miles of extent . This measure , which ...
Strona 88
... AGRIPPA ( ' Aуpinαç ) , I. a skeptical philosopher , only known to have lived later than Enesidemus , the con- temporary of Cicero , from whom he is said to have been the fifth in descent . He is quoted by Diogenes Laertius , who ...
... AGRIPPA ( ' Aуpinαç ) , I. a skeptical philosopher , only known to have lived later than Enesidemus , the con- temporary of Cicero , from whom he is said to have been the fifth in descent . He is quoted by Diogenes Laertius , who ...
Strona 89
... Agrippa with which he had begun to surround Jerusalem . His Castor , about A.D. 135 , praised as an historian by Eu- friendship was courted by many of the neighbouring sebius , and for his learning by St. Jerome ( de ... AGRIPPA . AGRIPPA .
... Agrippa with which he had begun to surround Jerusalem . His Castor , about A.D. 135 , praised as an historian by Eu- friendship was courted by many of the neighbouring sebius , and for his learning by St. Jerome ( de ... AGRIPPA . AGRIPPA .
Strona 90
... Agrippa was assign- ed by Augustus to the treasury of the army . It is said Agrippa , in whom thoughts and deeds were never that during his captivity he received the visit of Au- separated ... Agrippa went into Gaul . 90 AGRIPPA . AGRIPPA .
... Agrippa was assign- ed by Augustus to the treasury of the army . It is said Agrippa , in whom thoughts and deeds were never that during his captivity he received the visit of Au- separated ... Agrippa went into Gaul . 90 AGRIPPA . AGRIPPA .
Strona 91
... Agrippa went into Gaul . He pacified | two daughters , Julia , married to L. Æmilius Paullus the turbulent natives , and constructed four great pub- and Agrippina , married to Germanicus , and three sons , lic roads and a splendid ...
... Agrippa went into Gaul . He pacified | two daughters , Julia , married to L. Æmilius Paullus the turbulent natives , and constructed four great pub- and Agrippina , married to Germanicus , and three sons , lic roads and a splendid ...
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