Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... according to Pausanias was only 230 feet long , 95 broad , and 68 high . This also was of the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a ...
... according to Pausanias was only 230 feet long , 95 broad , and 68 high . This also was of the Doric order , but surrounded with a peristyle . Eliac . c . x . 2 . + Thus , as Diodorus Siculus observes , it partook of the nature of a ...
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... According to Diodorus , whose measurement seems accurate , it was seven stadia , nearly one mile , in circuit , and 20 cubits deep : its shape is triangular . In ancient times it served as a place to exercise the youth in swimming , an ...
... According to Diodorus , whose measurement seems accurate , it was seven stadia , nearly one mile , in circuit , and 20 cubits deep : its shape is triangular . In ancient times it served as a place to exercise the youth in swimming , an ...
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... according to the reader's opinion of that art which its Deity was supposed to patronise . Its site is determined by the authority of Polybius . Verres took from this shrine a beautiful statue of Apollo , which Scipio had restored to the ...
... according to the reader's opinion of that art which its Deity was supposed to patronise . Its site is determined by the authority of Polybius . Verres took from this shrine a beautiful statue of Apollo , which Scipio had restored to the ...
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... According to the abovementioned historian , the speeches and actions of this young lady before the Roman governor Quintianus , like those of many other virgin martyrs , were very devoutly immodest . * Saint Agatha was brought from ...
... According to the abovementioned historian , the speeches and actions of this young lady before the Roman governor Quintianus , like those of many other virgin martyrs , were very devoutly immodest . * Saint Agatha was brought from ...
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... according to the Roman orator , were the theme of universal eulogy : there the labours of Hercules were curiously wrought in ivory , the corners of each sepa- rate pannel being adorned with large golden bosses of exquisite work- manship ...
... according to the Roman orator , were the theme of universal eulogy : there the labours of Hercules were curiously wrought in ivory , the corners of each sepa- rate pannel being adorned with large golden bosses of exquisite work- manship ...
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