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, 1847 - 1458 |
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... writers , or from the description of the races now existing in the same countries . Conclusion . From what has been ad - ers , of Thebes . It is to Meroë , its ancient metropolis , duced , we may consider it as tolerably well proved ...
... writers , or from the description of the races now existing in the same countries . Conclusion . From what has been ad - ers , of Thebes . It is to Meroë , its ancient metropolis , duced , we may consider it as tolerably well proved ...
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... writers . Plutarch , in many of his Syracuse . But their works have either totally perish- biographies , and especially in his treatise on Ísis and ed , or at best only a few fragments remain . At a la- Osiris ; Philostratus , in his ...
... writers . Plutarch , in many of his Syracuse . But their works have either totally perish- biographies , and especially in his treatise on Ísis and ed , or at best only a few fragments remain . At a la- Osiris ; Philostratus , in his ...
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... writers , from whose statements we obtain our information , lived in an age when the Egyptian priesthood had already suffered many and important alterations , and had been deprived of a large portion of their former consideration and in ...
... writers , from whose statements we obtain our information , lived in an age when the Egyptian priesthood had already suffered many and important alterations , and had been deprived of a large portion of their former consideration and in ...
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... writers , as Strabo , for example , apply the term Ethiopian in the same way . Strabo , in the 15th book ( 686 ) , cites the opinion of Thcodectes , who attributed to the vicinity of the sun the black colour and woolly hair of the ...
... writers , as Strabo , for example , apply the term Ethiopian in the same way . Strabo , in the 15th book ( 686 ) , cites the opinion of Thcodectes , who attributed to the vicinity of the sun the black colour and woolly hair of the ...
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... writers . - II . Another Ephesian sculptor , who exercised his art in the island of Delos , while it was under the Roman sway . ( Sillig , Dict . Art . , s . v . ) ing to this view of the case , Atreus , who , as eldest the modern ...
... writers . - II . Another Ephesian sculptor , who exercised his art in the island of Delos , while it was under the Roman sway . ( Sillig , Dict . Art . , s . v . ) ing to this view of the case , Atreus , who , as eldest the modern ...
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