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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... land of blockheads " ( vervecum patriam , 10 , 50 ; compare Martial , 10 , 25 ; " Abderitanæ pectora plebis " ) . Much of this is exaggeration . Abdera was the limit of the Odrysian empire to the west ( Thuc . 2 , 29 ) . It after- ward ...
... land of blockheads " ( vervecum patriam , 10 , 50 ; compare Martial , 10 , 25 ; " Abderitanæ pectora plebis " ) . Much of this is exaggeration . Abdera was the limit of the Odrysian empire to the west ( Thuc . 2 , 29 ) . It after- ward ...
Strona 13
... land , called Nagara - Bor- Both these accounts differ from the common one , nou , or Pesquies Point . ( Hobhouse's Jour . 2 , 217 , Am . which makes Medea to have taken her brother with ed . ) Wheeler has rectified in this particular ...
... land , called Nagara - Bor- Both these accounts differ from the common one , nou , or Pesquies Point . ( Hobhouse's Jour . 2 , 217 , Am . which makes Medea to have taken her brother with ed . ) Wheeler has rectified in this particular ...
Strona 15
... land connect- ing the promontory of Athos with the continent . Stra- bo ( Epit . l . 7 , 330 ) places it on the Singiticus Sinus , as does Ptolemy ( p . 82 ) , but Herodotus distinctly fixes it on the Strymonicus Sinus ( 6 , 44 ; 7 , 22 ) ...
... land connect- ing the promontory of Athos with the continent . Stra- bo ( Epit . l . 7 , 330 ) places it on the Singiticus Sinus , as does Ptolemy ( p . 82 ) , but Herodotus distinctly fixes it on the Strymonicus Sinus ( 6 , 44 ; 7 , 22 ) ...
Strona 18
... land was also converted into a Roman province , under the name of Achaia , embra- cing , besides Achaia proper , all the rest of the Pelo- ponnesus , together with all the country north of the isthmus , excepting Thessaly , Epirus , and ...
... land was also converted into a Roman province , under the name of Achaia , embra- cing , besides Achaia proper , all the rest of the Pelo- ponnesus , together with all the country north of the isthmus , excepting Thessaly , Epirus , and ...
Strona 34
... land on its banks . It con- tains some islands , which , from their low level , easily admit of irrigation . At the mouth of the Jebel - el - Sil- sili ( Girard , Mem . sur l'Egypte , vol . 3 , p . 13 ) , the Nile runs along the right ...
... land on its banks . It con- tains some islands , which , from their low level , easily admit of irrigation . At the mouth of the Jebel - el - Sil- sili ( Girard , Mem . sur l'Egypte , vol . 3 , p . 13 ) , the Nile runs along the right ...
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