The History of Sicily to the Athenian War: With Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of PindarJ. Murray, 1872 - 396 oldal |
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The History of Sicily to the Athenian War: With Elucidations of the Sicilian ... William Watkiss Lloyd Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2012 |
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Acragas Ætna Agesias alliance allies allusion Anaxilaus antiquity Apollo appears ascribed Athenian Athens barbarians battle brother Camarina Carthage Carthaginian celebrated CHAP chariot victory Chromius citizens coast colonists colony contest crown Cumæ Damareta daughter death dedicated Deinomenes Demeter demus descendants Diodorus divine Dorian Doric Ducetius Edition Elymi Empedocles Epinician Epizephyrian Ergoteles Etna father favour festival gained Gela Gelon glory goddess gods Greece Greek Hellas Hellenic Helorus Hercules Herodotus Hiero Himera Hippocrates Homer honour horses Illustrations implied interest Ionian island king least Leontini Locrians ment mythical mythus Nemean Olympia OLYMPIC ODE Olympic victory original Ortygia Pausanias Phalaris Phoenician Pindar poet poetical poetry political Polyzelus population Poseidon Post 8vo probably Pyth PYTHIAN ODE race recognise Rhegium scarcely scholiast seems Selinus settlement Sicans Sicel Sicilian Sicily Sparta story success sympathy Syracusans Syracuse temple Theron Thrasybulus Thrasydæus tion tradition Triopian tyranny tyrant Ulysses wealth Xenocrates Zancle Zeus
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11. oldal - Rainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been clothed with terrors by the writers of antiquity. To the undecked boats of the Rhegians, Locrians, Zancleans, and Greeks, it must have been formidable ; for, even in the present day, small craft are sometimes endangered by it, and I have seen several men-of-war, and even a seventy four gun ship, whirled round on its surface ; but, by using due caution, there...
10. oldal - Ulysses, with fancying it the scourge of seamen, and, that in a gale its caverns " roar like dogs ;" but I, as a sailor, never perceived any difference between the effect of the surges here, and on any other coast, yet I have frequently watched it closely in bad weather. It is now, as I presume it ever was, a common rock, of bold approach, a little worn at its base, and surmounted by a castle, with a sandy bay on each side.
11. oldal - Outside the tongue of land, or Braccio di St. Kainiere, that forms the harbour of Messina, lies the Galofaro, or celebrated vortex of Charybdis, which has, with more reason than Scylla, been cluthed with terrors by the writers of antiquity.
12. oldal - It appears to be an agitated water, of from seventy to ninety fathoms in depth, circling in quick eddies. It is owing probably to the meeting of the harbour and lateral currents with the main one, the latter being forced over in this direction by the opposite point of Pezzo. This agrees in some measure with the relation of Thucydides, who calls it a violent reciprocation of the Tyrrhene and Sicilian seas, and he is the only writer of remote antiquity I remember to have read, who has assigned this...