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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... respecting the sacerdotal caste of Egypt is rendered a difficult one principally on the following account , because the writers , from whose statements we obtain our information , lived in an age when the Egyptian priesthood had already ...
... respecting the sacerdotal caste of Egypt is rendered a difficult one principally on the following account , because the writers , from whose statements we obtain our information , lived in an age when the Egyptian priesthood had already ...
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... respecting Æneas differ . While , according to one tradition , of which there are traces even in the Homeric poems , he remained in Troas , and ruled over the remnant of the Trojan population , he wandered from his native land according ...
... respecting Æneas differ . While , according to one tradition , of which there are traces even in the Homeric poems , he remained in Troas , and ruled over the remnant of the Trojan population , he wandered from his native land according ...
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... respecting the unfaithfulness of Coronis . | same idea . He is the sun , without strength at the from a raven , and the angry deity is said by Apollodo- close of autumn . rus to have changed the colour of the raven from white we find ...
... respecting the unfaithfulness of Coronis . | same idea . He is the sun , without strength at the from a raven , and the angry deity is said by Apollodo- close of autumn . rus to have changed the colour of the raven from white we find ...
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... respecting the trade of Ethiopia . - The early and cu- guishes into the inhabitants of Meroe and the Macrobii , rious belief respecting the Ethiopian race , that they In Strabo ( 800 ) and Pliny ( 6 , 29 ) we find other tribes and stood ...
... respecting the trade of Ethiopia . - The early and cu- guishes into the inhabitants of Meroe and the Macrobii , rious belief respecting the Ethiopian race , that they In Strabo ( 800 ) and Pliny ( 6 , 29 ) we find other tribes and stood ...
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... respecting the fires of Ætna have the moderns , in any considerable degree , im- has given rise to the opinion , that the mountain in his proved upon the knowledge of the ancients . The time was in the same state of repose as Vesuvius ...
... respecting the fires of Ætna have the moderns , in any considerable degree , im- has given rise to the opinion , that the mountain in his proved upon the knowledge of the ancients . The time was in the same state of repose as Vesuvius ...
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