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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... known , inverted so many of the ancient traditions , and in this case , for example , made that pass from Greece into Egypt , which came in reality from Egypt to Greece . ( Wess . ad Diod . Sic . l . c . ) ACTISANES , according to ...
... known , inverted so many of the ancient traditions , and in this case , for example , made that pass from Greece into Egypt , which came in reality from Egypt to Greece . ( Wess . ad Diod . Sic . l . c . ) ACTISANES , according to ...
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... known passage fairer at least than the Arabs . Yet , in all the inter- of Herodotus ( 2 , 104 ) , which has often been cited to course they had with Egypt , we never find in the sa- this purpose . The authority of this historian is of ...
... known passage fairer at least than the Arabs . Yet , in all the inter- of Herodotus ( 2 , 104 ) , which has often been cited to course they had with Egypt , we never find in the sa- this purpose . The authority of this historian is of ...
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... known to bring with them dead cats and hawks , which they had met with accidentally , and 11. Explanation of Animal Worship . had salted and prepared for sepulture with much pious The origin of animal worship , and the reasons or grief ...
... known to bring with them dead cats and hawks , which they had met with accidentally , and 11. Explanation of Animal Worship . had salted and prepared for sepulture with much pious The origin of animal worship , and the reasons or grief ...
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... known to them . They made the green pigment is a mixture of a little ochre , with a wine , vinegar , and even beer . Their method of em- pulverulent glass , made by vitrifying the oxydes of cop- balming , whatever it was , may be ...
... known to them . They made the green pigment is a mixture of a little ochre , with a wine , vinegar , and even beer . Their method of em- pulverulent glass , made by vitrifying the oxydes of cop- balming , whatever it was , may be ...
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... known to the Greeks , and , in earlier times , to the Hebrews . The only way of avoiding the inference , that the Ethiopians were genuine ne- groes , must be by the supposition , that the ancients , among whom the foregoing expressions ...
... known to the Greeks , and , in earlier times , to the Hebrews . The only way of avoiding the inference , that the Ethiopians were genuine ne- groes , must be by the supposition , that the ancients , among whom the foregoing expressions ...
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