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. Together with an Account of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the SameHarper, 1890 - 1451 |
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... present Delta . But this triangular piece of insulated land was in for- mer times much larger , being bounded on the east by the Pelusian branch , which is now choked up with sand or converted into marshy pools ; while on the west it ...
... present Delta . But this triangular piece of insulated land was in for- mer times much larger , being bounded on the east by the Pelusian branch , which is now choked up with sand or converted into marshy pools ; while on the west it ...
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... present Aboohannes . Gro- is a very different plant , namely , the ziziphus lotus bert and Geoffroy - Saint - Hilaire have brought home ( rhamnus ) , or jujube , which bears a fruit the size of a mummies of this animal , which had been ...
... present Aboohannes . Gro- is a very different plant , namely , the ziziphus lotus bert and Geoffroy - Saint - Hilaire have brought home ( rhamnus ) , or jujube , which bears a fruit the size of a mummies of this animal , which had been ...
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... present volume under the article Delta . ) Monuments , tradition , analogies of every kind , are here in accordance with natural prob abilities . There was a period when the names of Ethiopia and Egypt were confounded together , when ...
... present volume under the article Delta . ) Monuments , tradition , analogies of every kind , are here in accordance with natural prob abilities . There was a period when the names of Ethiopia and Egypt were confounded together , when ...
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... present only the swords , but the bows also , and quivers are day . The vases thus manufactured served for hold- made of it . These , together with the instruments for ing the water of the Nile , to which they were believed cutting that ...
... present only the swords , but the bows also , and quivers are day . The vases thus manufactured served for hold- made of it . These , together with the instruments for ing the water of the Nile , to which they were believed cutting that ...
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... present any serious obstacle to this opinion , since Sophocles may have completed what Agatharchus began . II . A painter , a native of Samos , and con- temporary with Zeuxis . We have no certain state- ment respecting the degree of ...
... present any serious obstacle to this opinion , since Sophocles may have completed what Agatharchus began . II . A painter , a native of Samos , and con- temporary with Zeuxis . We have no certain state- ment respecting the degree of ...
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