A Dictionary of Ancient Geography: Explaining the Local Appellations in Sacred, Grecian, and Roman History; Exhibiting the Extent of Kingdoms, and Situations of Cities, &c. And Illustrating the Allusions and Epithets in the Greek and Roman Poets. The Whole Established by Proper Authorities, and Designed for the Use of SchoolsG. Robinson, 1773 - 628 |
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... Tacitus . Now Elfen , according to Cluverius ,. PIONIS . ALALCOMENAE , a town in the terri tory of Deuriopus , in the north of Macedonia , between the river Axi- us and Erigon , Strabo . Spain , Ptolemy . Now Alava . ALABANDA , de , a ...
... Tacitus . Now Elfen , according to Cluverius ,. PIONIS . ALALCOMENAE , a town in the terri tory of Deuriopus , in the north of Macedonia , between the river Axi- us and Erigon , Strabo . Spain , Ptolemy . Now Alava . ALABANDA , de , a ...
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... Tacitus ; rifing in the duchy of Weftphalia , near Almen , and running through the territory of Paderborn , it falls , not far from Paderborn , into the Lippe . Also a town of Germany , Tacitus . ALOCIAE INSULAE , three islands , placed ...
... Tacitus ; rifing in the duchy of Weftphalia , near Almen , and running through the territory of Paderborn , it falls , not far from Paderborn , into the Lippe . Also a town of Germany , Tacitus . ALOCIAE INSULAE , three islands , placed ...
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... of the European Sporades : the country of Simonides , the Iambic poet , Strabo . To this ifland cri- minals were banished , Tacitus . Famous for a fine flax called Amor- · · gis . Another island of the fame name gis A M A M 10 ...
... of the European Sporades : the country of Simonides , the Iambic poet , Strabo . To this ifland cri- minals were banished , Tacitus . Famous for a fine flax called Amor- · · gis . Another island of the fame name gis A M A M 10 ...
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... Tacitus ; Andegavi , Pliny ; Andes , Caefar ; Andi , Lucan ; a people | of Gallia Celtica , having the Tu- rones to the eaft , the Namnetes to the weft , the Pictones to the fouth , and the Aulerci Coenomani to the north now Anjou ...
... Tacitus ; Andegavi , Pliny ; Andes , Caefar ; Andi , Lucan ; a people | of Gallia Celtica , having the Tu- rones to the eaft , the Namnetes to the weft , the Pictones to the fouth , and the Aulerci Coenomani to the north now Anjou ...
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... Tacitus ; a people of Ger- many beyond the Elbe ; called Sue- vi Angili , Ptolemy ; because a branch of the Suevi . ANGRIVARII , Tacitus ; a people of Germany , fituate between the We- fer and the Ems , and eastward reaching beyond the ...
... Tacitus ; a people of Ger- many beyond the Elbe ; called Sue- vi Angili , Ptolemy ; because a branch of the Suevi . ANGRIVARII , Tacitus ; a people of Germany , fituate between the We- fer and the Ems , and eastward reaching beyond the ...
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Strona 10 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Strona 3 - Quiritum only, or private right ; as right of liberty, of gentility, or dignity of family, facrifice, marriage, &c. For it was long a rule, never to grant the liberty of the city in full to colonies ; nor is there any inftance to the contrary, till after the Social war, in the year of the city fix hundred and fixty-two.
Strona 9 - Liguria, at the confluence of the Stura and Tanarus. Suetonius calls it a municipium, and the people Pollentina Plebs. It was famous for its abundance of black fleeces; but was afterwards, under Arcadius and Honorius, ftained with a defeat rather of the Romans under Stilico than of the Goths under Alaricus.
Strona 7 - ... Dictionaries are commodious, they are likewise fallacious: he whose works exhibit an apparent connexion and regular subordination cannot easily conceal his ignorance, or favour his idleness; the completeness of one part will show the deficiency of another: but the writer of a Dictionary may silently omit what he does not know; and his ignorance, if it happens to be discovered, slips away from censure under the name of forgetfulness.
Strona 7 - I fhall not often be found to have ufed. I have not only digefted former Dictionaries into my alphabet, but have confulted the ancient Geographers, without neglecting other authors. I have in fome degree enlightened ancient by modern Geography, having given the fituation of places from later obfervation. Names are often changing, but place is always the fame, and to know it exactly is always of importance...