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, 1842 - 1423 |
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... mountain of Africa , opposite Calpe ( Gibraltar ) , supposed to coincide with Cape Ser- ra . It is an elevated point of land , forming a peninsula , of which a place named Ceuta closes the isthmus . Of the two forms given to the name of ...
... mountain of Africa , opposite Calpe ( Gibraltar ) , supposed to coincide with Cape Ser- ra . It is an elevated point of land , forming a peninsula , of which a place named Ceuta closes the isthmus . Of the two forms given to the name of ...
Strona 34
... mountains , and at each place the barrier is surmounted . The second cataract , in Turkish Nubia , is the most violent ... mountain ridges , one of which extends to the Red Sea , and the other terminates in the deserts of ancient Libya ...
... mountains , and at each place the barrier is surmounted . The second cataract , in Turkish Nubia , is the most violent ... mountain ridges , one of which extends to the Red Sea , and the other terminates in the deserts of ancient Libya ...
Strona 75
... mountain , " given to Etna on manner . Hence Galen , Cælius Aurelianus , Rhazes , account of its vast size , and recalling the remembrance and Avicenna , rank the plague among those complaints of the Arabian conquests in Sicily ...
... mountain , " given to Etna on manner . Hence Galen , Cælius Aurelianus , Rhazes , account of its vast size , and recalling the remembrance and Avicenna , rank the plague among those complaints of the Arabian conquests in Sicily ...
Strona 76
... mountain to re- main unemployed in their mythological legends may easily be imagined , and hence the fable that Etna lay on part of the giant form of Typhon , enemy of the gods . ( Pindar , Pyth.l. c . - Compare Eschylus , Prom . Vinct ...
... mountain to re- main unemployed in their mythological legends may easily be imagined , and hence the fable that Etna lay on part of the giant form of Typhon , enemy of the gods . ( Pindar , Pyth.l. c . - Compare Eschylus , Prom . Vinct ...
Strona 81
... mountain called by the Greeks Atlas , and by the bar- tus of Africa . To what we have stated on this sub- barians Dyris : advancing thence towards the west , ject may be added the following curious narrative , we see Cape Cotes , and ...
... mountain called by the Greeks Atlas , and by the bar- tus of Africa . To what we have stated on this sub- barians Dyris : advancing thence towards the west , ject may be added the following curious narrative , we see Cape Cotes , and ...
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