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, 1847 - 1458 |
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... gave oracles , though in this dilapidated state , and was consulted for that purpose by an agent of Mardonius ( Herod . 8 , 134 ) . In the Sacred war , a body of Phocians having fled to it for refuge , the Thebans burned what remained ...
... gave oracles , though in this dilapidated state , and was consulted for that purpose by an agent of Mardonius ( Herod . 8 , 134 ) . In the Sacred war , a body of Phocians having fled to it for refuge , the Thebans burned what remained ...
Strona 11
... gave the name Abii to the people , who had sent ambassadors , merely because they had heard that the Abii dwelt on that river . ABILA , OF ABYLA , I. a mountain of Africa , opposite Calpe ( Gibraltar ) , supposed to coincide with Cape ...
... gave the name Abii to the people , who had sent ambassadors , merely because they had heard that the Abii dwelt on that river . ABILA , OF ABYLA , I. a mountain of Africa , opposite Calpe ( Gibraltar ) , supposed to coincide with Cape ...
Strona 15
... gave name to Acarnania ; but vid . Acarnania . ( Paus . 8 , 24. ) ACARNANIA , a country of Greece Proper , along the western coast , having Ætolia on the east . The natu- ral boundary on the Etolian side was the Achelous , but it was ...
... gave name to Acarnania ; but vid . Acarnania . ( Paus . 8 , 24. ) ACARNANIA , a country of Greece Proper , along the western coast , having Ætolia on the east . The natu- ral boundary on the Etolian side was the Achelous , but it was ...
Strona 18
... gave the Romans an opportunity of interfering in the affairs of Greece , and at last Corinth was destroyed , and the Achæan league annihilated by these new invaders . Vid . Eto- lia and Corinth . ) Mummius , the Roman general , caused ...
... gave the Romans an opportunity of interfering in the affairs of Greece , and at last Corinth was destroyed , and the Achæan league annihilated by these new invaders . Vid . Eto- lia and Corinth . ) Mummius , the Roman general , caused ...
Strona 29
... gave an account of them ( l . 2 , p . 140 , ander , who was then only five years old , to Macedonia . apud Montfauc . ) . One is on a kind of throne , or rather In the following year he marched to the assistance of armchair , of white ...
... gave an account of them ( l . 2 , p . 140 , ander , who was then only five years old , to Macedonia . apud Montfauc . ) . One is on a kind of throne , or rather In the following year he marched to the assistance of armchair , of white ...
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