Bibliotheca Classica: Or, a Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms Relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of the Antiquity and of the Ancients, with a Chronological TableW.E. Dean, 1838 - 803 oldal |
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Acarnania according Achæans Adriatic Africa afterwards Alexander Alps ancient antiquity Apollo appears Arcadia Argolis Asia Minor Athenians Athens Attica Augustus battle became Boeotia borders built Cæs Cæsar called Campania capital celebrated Cicero coast colony conquered consul Cram D'Anville death defeated derived east Egypt emperor empire Epirus Etruria Euxine famous formed Gaul Greece Greeks gulf Herodot historian Homer honour inhabitants Ionian 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 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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237. oldal - I will add to your yoke : my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
20. oldal - 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.
262. oldal - ... 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 house, 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...
357. oldal - Basilciis : 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.
294. oldal - N ile ; and over them the river rolls majestically his impetuous foaming wave,s. Here are the quarries from which the obelisks and colossal statues of the Egyptian temples were dug. An obelisk, partially formed and still remaining attached to the native rock, bears testimony to the laborious and patient efforts of human art. On the polished surfaces of these rocks hieroglyphic sculptures represent the Egyptian deities, together with the sacrifices and offerings of this nation, which...
262. oldal - ... abandoned rooms you may, without any great effort of imagination, expect to meet some of the former inhabitants, or perhaps the master of the house himself, and almost feel like intruders who dread the appearance of any of the family. In the streets you are afraid of turning a corner, lest you should...
220. oldal - The conqueror was rewarded with a crown of olive, af220 terwards of green parsley, in memory of the adventure of Archemorus, whom his nurse laid down on a sprig of that plant. They were celebrated every third, or according to others, every fifth year...
385. oldal - Plin. 7, c. 25, says that he could employ, at the same time, his ears to listen, his eyes to read, his hand to write, and his mind to dictate.
42. oldal - Phidias himself wrought the statue of the goddess, of ivory and gold, twenty-six cubits high, having on the top of her helmet a sphinx, with griffins on each of the sides; on the breast a head of Medusa wrought in ivory, and a figure of Victory, about four cubits high, holding a spear in her hand and a shield lying at her feet. Until the latter part of the seventeenth century, this magnificent temple, with all its ornaments, existed entire. During the siege of Athens by the Venetians, the central...
331. oldal - It was he who first commenced the practice of inserting choruses between the acts of the drama, which had no reference whatever to the circumstances of the piece ; thus infringing the law by which the chorus was made one of the actors.