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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... 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 , became ignorant of their claim to the invention of the ...
... 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 , became ignorant of their claim to the invention of the ...
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... Egypt owes its ex- istence as a habitable country , since , without the rich and fertilizing mud deposited by the river in its annual inundations , it would be a sandy desert . At three different places , previous to its entering Egypt ...
... Egypt owes its ex- istence as a habitable country , since , without the rich and fertilizing mud deposited by the river in its annual inundations , it would be a sandy desert . At three different places , previous to its entering Egypt ...
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... Egypt were full . Hence , too , Nile diverge on both sides . The one , under the name Egypt became regarded as one of the granaries of of Jibbel - al - Nairon , runs northwest towards the Med- Rome . ( Aurel . Victor . , Epit . c . 1 ...
... Egypt were full . Hence , too , Nile diverge on both sides . The one , under the name Egypt became regarded as one of the granaries of of Jibbel - al - Nairon , runs northwest towards the Med- Rome . ( Aurel . Victor . , Epit . c . 1 ...
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... Egypt differ not much from those of that of the poppy . He adds , that there is a second Europe . He saw the Egyptian swan , represented in species , the root of which is very grateful , either fresh all the temples of Upper Egypt ...
... Egypt differ not much from those of that of the poppy . He adds , that there is a second Europe . He saw the Egyptian swan , represented in species , the root of which is very grateful , either fresh all the temples of Upper Egypt ...
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... Egypt was denominated ' Hepía for a mentioning eleven nomes as forming the district of similar reason . Bryant ( 6 ... Egyptian historian , states , was dependant on him , exercised particular control that Ramses , or Ramesses , who ...
... Egypt was denominated ' Hepía for a mentioning eleven nomes as forming the district of similar reason . Bryant ( 6 ... Egyptian historian , states , was dependant on him , exercised particular control that Ramses , or Ramesses , who ...
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