 GRAND LA'MA, 407, 408. GREAT BEAR (Constellation), 44, 55. GREEK GODS, 1-15. GRYPHON (griffin), a fabulous animal, with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, dwelling in the Rhipean mountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one-eyed...  A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and Geography - 179. oldalszerző: William Smith - 1877 - 438 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Virgil - 1820 - 456 oldal
...marriage of Nisa with Mopsus, as something monstrous. The grififin is a fabulous monster, said to have the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eaçle: these animals are pretended to live in the most northern parts of Europe, where they dig gold... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1829 - 342 oldal
...marriage of Nisa with Mopsus as something monstrous. The griffin is a fabulous monster, said to have the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle : these animals are pretended to live in the most northern parts of Europe, where they dig gold out... | |
 | Virgil - 1829 - 348 oldal
...marriage of Nisa with Mopsus as something monstrous. The griffin is a fabulous monster, said to have the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle : these animals are pretended to live in the most northern parts of Europe, where they dig gold out... | |
 | Virgil - 1830 - 348 oldal
...My shaggy eyebrows, and my lengthen'd beard ! 33 The ' griffin' is a fabulous monster, said to have the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle, to be occupied in digging gold out of the mines of the north of Kurope, and to be engaged in continual... | |
 | David Morison (F.S.A.Scot.) - 1838 - 416 oldal
...cherubic forms were very distinctly retained. The Griffon (revolving faces) had the hoof of the ox, the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The head of a lion, united to that of a man, forms one of the penates or household gods of India; some... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 oldal
...sore, that they the heavens affray : 1 Wrestes, wrists. s Blesse, blaze. * Gryfon, commonly spelled griffin, a fabulous animal, with the body of a lion and the wings of an eagle. 4 Ravine, prey. 6 Souce, strike, as a bird strikes his prey. VIII. 2.— As when,... | |
 | Virgil, Thomas Keightley - 1847 - 524 oldal
...animals that abode in the Rhipaean mountains, where they kept watch over treasures of gold : they had the body of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The poet commits his usual fault in putting the mention of them into the mouth of a shepherd. — 28.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1850 - 858 oldal
...inhabitants as slaves. It was never again restored. Gryps or Gryphus (Tpity), a griffin, a fabulous animal, dwelling in the Rhipaean mountains, between the Hyperboreans...Arimaspians, and guarding the gold of the north. The Arimospians mounted on horseback, and attempted to steal the gold, and hence arose the hostility between... | |
 | Egidio Forcellini - 1854 - 1240 oldal
...GRYPS or GRYP1IUS (I>ty), a griffin, a fabulous, bird-like species of animals, dwelling in the Rhiparan mountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one-eyed...Arimaspians, and guarding the gold of the north. The Arisnraspians mounted on horseback, and attempted to steal the gold, and hence arose the hostility... | |
 | Greek and Roman biography - 1861 - 1246 oldal
...GRYPS or GRYPHUS (I>ty), a griffin, a fabulous, bird-tike species of animals, dwelling hi the Rhipoean mountains, between the Hyperboreans and the one-eyed...Arimaspians, and guarding the gold of the north. The Arismaspians mounted on horseback, and attempted to steal the gold, and hence arose the hostility between... | |
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