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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... Strabo is the only other writer that makes mention of him . ( Strabo , 759. ) ACTORIDES , I. a patronymic given to Patroclus , grandson of Actor . ( Ovid , Met . 13 , fab . 1 . ) - II . The sons of Actor and Molione , vid . Molionides ...
... Strabo is the only other writer that makes mention of him . ( Strabo , 759. ) ACTORIDES , I. a patronymic given to Patroclus , grandson of Actor . ( Ovid , Met . 13 , fab . 1 . ) - II . The sons of Actor and Molione , vid . Molionides ...
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... Strabo for too lightly rejecting the discoveries as of a thing altogether unknown , Etearchus acquaint- of the Carthaginians along the western coast , since ed them , that certain Nasamones , a nation of Libya in - nothing proves him to ...
... Strabo for too lightly rejecting the discoveries as of a thing altogether unknown , Etearchus acquaint- of the Carthaginians along the western coast , since ed them , that certain Nasamones , a nation of Libya in - nothing proves him to ...
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... ( Strabo , 325. — Scymn . , Ch . , v . 452. ) It early acquired some maritime celebrity , by reason of its advantageous position , and was a powerful and in- dependent city towards the commencement of the Pe- loponnesian war , in which it ...
... ( Strabo , 325. — Scymn . , Ch . , v . 452. ) It early acquired some maritime celebrity , by reason of its advantageous position , and was a powerful and in- dependent city towards the commencement of the Pe- loponnesian war , in which it ...
Strona 123
... Strabo ( 201 ) calls it Ama- sia ( ' Auacía ) , and Pliny ( 4 , 14 ) Amasis . AMBULI , a surname of Castor and Pollux , in Sparta , and also of Jupiter and Minerva . They were so named , it is said , from aμboλń , delay , because it was ...
... Strabo ( 201 ) calls it Ama- sia ( ' Auacía ) , and Pliny ( 4 , 14 ) Amasis . AMBULI , a surname of Castor and Pollux , in Sparta , and also of Jupiter and Minerva . They were so named , it is said , from aμboλń , delay , because it was ...
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... Strabo , Ecclairciss . , No. 34 , vol . 3 , Ap- pend . , p . 154. ) Strabo affirms , that it obtained its name from the violent gusts of wind which blew from Mount Catopterius , a peak belonging to the chain of Parnassus . He adds that ...
... Strabo , Ecclairciss . , No. 34 , vol . 3 , Ap- pend . , p . 154. ) Strabo affirms , that it obtained its name from the violent gusts of wind which blew from Mount Catopterius , a peak belonging to the chain of Parnassus . He adds that ...
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