Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms Relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and of the Ancients; with a Chronological TableW.E. Dean, 1839 - 803 páginas |
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Bibliotheca Classica: Or, a Dictionnary of All the Principal Names and Terms ... John Lemprière Visualização integral - 1838 |
Bibliotheca Classica: Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms ... John Lemprière Visualização integral - 1839 |
Bibliotheca Classica: Or, a Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms ... John Lemprière Visualização integral - 1838 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Acarnania according Achæans Africa afterwards Alexander Alps ancient antiquity Apollo appears Arcadia Argolis Asia Minor Athenians Athens Attica Augustus battle became Boeotia borders built Cæsar called Campania capital celebrated Cicero coast colony conquered consul Cram D'Anville death defeated derived east Egypt emperor empire Epirus Etruria Euxine extended famous formed Gaul Greece Greeks gulf Herodot historian Homer honour Horat inhabitants island Italy king Lacedæmonians lake Latium Locri Macedonia Mela Messenia Messenians miles modern name mount mountains mouth nation Nile occupied orator origin Ovid Paus Pausanias Pelasgi Peloponnesus Persian Phocis Phrygia Plin Pliny Plut poet principal promontory province Ptolemy received reign Rhine river Roman Rome ruins Scythia shores Sicily side Sinus situated Spain Sparta stadia Strabo supposed surnamed Syria Tacit tains temple territory Thessaly Thrace tion town tribes Trojan Umbria Virg Volsci walls waters whence writers wrote
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Página 235 - My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página 56 - ¿p/crctV./v, as the virgins themselves bore the name of upxrot, bears, from this circumstance. There was a bear in one of the villages of Attica so tame, that he ate with the inhabitants, and played harmlessly with them. This familiarity lasted long, till a young virgin treated the animal too roughly, and was killed by it. The virgin's brother killed the bear, and the country was soon after visited by a pestilence. The oracle was consulted, and the plague removed by consecrating virgins to the service...
Página 260 - I had almost said, melts the soul. In other times and in other places, one single edifice, a temple, a theatre, a tomb, that had escaped the wreck of ages, would have enchanted us; nay, an arch, the remnant of a wall, even one solitary column was beheld with veneration ; but to discover a single ancient hous.e, the abode of a Roman in his privacy, the scene of his domestic hours, was an object of fond, but hopeless longing. Here, not a temple, nor a theatre, nor a...
Página 20 - From that time, like everything else which falls into the hands of the Mussulman, it has been going to ruin, and the discovery of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope gave the deathblow to its commercial greatness.
Página 353 - It was his office to keep good order, and to remove all causes of quarrel in the families of those who were dedicated to the service of the gods. The profane and the impious were brought before his tribunal ; and he offered public sacrifices for the good of the state. He assisted at the celebration of the Eleusinian festivals, and other religious ceremonies.
Página 334 - Darius, who were taken prisoners, has been greatly praised ; and the latter who survived the death of her son, killed herself when she heard that Alexander was dead. His great intrepidity more than once endangered his life ; he always fought as if sure of victory, and the terror of his name was often more powerfully effectual than his arms.
Página 56 - ... roughly, and was killed by it. The virgin's brother killed the bear, and the country was soon after visited by a pestilence. - The oracle was consulted, and the plague removed by consecrating virgins to the service of Diana. This was so faithfully observed, that no woman in Athens was ever married before a previous consecration to the goddess. The statue of Diana of Tauris, which had been brought into Greece by Iphigenia, was preserved in the town of Brauron. Xerxes carried it away when he invaded...
Página 381 - ... commendation, as well as his military character. He reformed the calendar. He wrote his commentaries on the Gallic wars, on the spot where he fought his battles ; and the composition has been admired for the elegance as well as the correctness of its style. This valuable book was nearly lost ; and when Caesar saved his life In the bay of Alexandria, he was obliged to swim from his ship, with his arms in one hand and his commentaries in the other.
Página 322 - His memory was so retentive, that he remembered every incident of his life, and knew all the soldiers of his army by name. He was the first emperor who wore a long beard, and this he did to hide the warts on his face.
Página 92 - Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt, one of which flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that, Jupiter had consecrated the ground, which in future would give oracles. The extensive grove which surrounded Jupiter's temp!e was endowed with the gift of prophecy, and oracles were frequently delivered by the sacred oaks, and the doves which inhabited the place.