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, 1842 - 1423 |
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... Diodorus Siculus ( 4 , 45 ) Egialeus . Consult Wesseling , ad loc . ABUS , a river of Britain , now the Humber . Cam- den ( Brit . , p . 634 ) derives the ancient name from the old British word Aber , denoting the mouth of a river , or ...
... Diodorus Siculus ( 4 , 45 ) Egialeus . Consult Wesseling , ad loc . ABUS , a river of Britain , now the Humber . Cam- den ( Brit . , p . 634 ) derives the ancient name from the old British word Aber , denoting the mouth of a river , or ...
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... Diodorus Siculus ( 1 , 92 ) . A proper examination of the passage , however , will lead to the following conclusions : 1st , that no name whatever is given by Diodorus for any particular lake of this kind ; and , 2d , that each district ...
... Diodorus Siculus ( 1 , 92 ) . A proper examination of the passage , however , will lead to the following conclusions : 1st , that no name whatever is given by Diodorus for any particular lake of this kind ; and , 2d , that each district ...
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... Diodorus Siculus ( 3 , 28 ) says , that they Acis , a Sicilian shepherd , son of Faunus and the never lived beyond their 40th year , and that they then nymph Simæthis . He gained the affections of Gala- perished miserably , being ...
... Diodorus Siculus ( 3 , 28 ) says , that they Acis , a Sicilian shepherd , son of Faunus and the never lived beyond their 40th year , and that they then nymph Simæthis . He gained the affections of Gala- perished miserably , being ...
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... Diodorus Siculus ( 4 , 81 ) , a suspi- cion arises , that the story of Acteon is a corruption of some earlier tradition , respecting the fate of an intru- der into the mysteries of Diana . Wesseling's expla- nation does not appear ...
... Diodorus Siculus ( 4 , 81 ) , a suspi- cion arises , that the story of Acteon is a corruption of some earlier tradition , respecting the fate of an intru- der into the mysteries of Diana . Wesseling's expla- nation does not appear ...
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... Diodorus Siculus ( 5 , 57 ) , migrated from Rhodes into Egypt , founded Heliopolis , and taught the Egyptians astrology . The same writer states , that the Greeks , having lost by a deluge nearly all their memorials of previous events ...
... Diodorus Siculus ( 5 , 57 ) , migrated from Rhodes into Egypt , founded Heliopolis , and taught the Egyptians astrology . The same writer states , that the Greeks , having lost by a deluge nearly all their memorials of previous events ...
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