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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... islands was a corruption of some real apellation , which , though unconnected with the fable , still , from similarity of sound , induced the poets to connect it with the name of Medea's brother . The principal island is Absorus , with ...
... islands was a corruption of some real apellation , which , though unconnected with the fable , still , from similarity of sound , induced the poets to connect it with the name of Medea's brother . The principal island is Absorus , with ...
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... islands is called by Ptolemy Phorbantia ( Poplavría ) , i . e . , the pasture - island , which the Latin writers trans- late by Bucina , i . e . , Oxen - island , it being probably uninhabited , and used only for pasturing cattle . This ...
... islands is called by Ptolemy Phorbantia ( Poplavría ) , i . e . , the pasture - island , which the Latin writers trans- late by Bucina , i . e . , Oxen - island , it being probably uninhabited , and used only for pasturing cattle . This ...
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... island received a Dorian colony from Epi- daurus ( Pausan . 2 , 29. - Tzetz . ad Lyc . 176 ) , and from this period the Dorians gradually gained the as- cendency in it , until at last it became entirely Doric , both in language and form ...
... island received a Dorian colony from Epi- daurus ( Pausan . 2 , 29. - Tzetz . ad Lyc . 176 ) , and from this period the Dorians gradually gained the as- cendency in it , until at last it became entirely Doric , both in language and form ...
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... island off the coast of Campania , at the entrance of the Bay of Naples . Properly speaking , there are two islands , and hence the plural form of the name which the Greeks applied to them , ai II0ŋxou- oal ( Pithecusa ) . This latter ...
... island off the coast of Campania , at the entrance of the Bay of Naples . Properly speaking , there are two islands , and hence the plural form of the name which the Greeks applied to them , ai II0ŋxou- oal ( Pithecusa ) . This latter ...
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... island of tæ , for a certain time , even for life , of whom Pittacus , Egina . ( Compare Pausan . , 2 , 29.—Id. , 10 ... island , s . v . Lesbos . antes , and Lapitha became intermingled with the Hel- EOLIÆ , seven islands , situate off ...
... island of tæ , for a certain time , even for life , of whom Pittacus , Egina . ( Compare Pausan . , 2 , 29.—Id. , 10 ... island , s . v . Lesbos . antes , and Lapitha became intermingled with the Hel- EOLIÆ , seven islands , situate off ...
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