Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania, Volume 1Mawman, 1820 - 1 pages |
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... Custom of the Girls carrying Coins upon their Heads --- Visit to Mycena --- Acropolis --- Gate of the Lions ... Customs --- Visit to the Vaivode --- Dispatch a Mes- senger to Constantinople - Visit the Acropolis accompanied by Signore ...
... Custom of the Girls carrying Coins upon their Heads --- Visit to Mycena --- Acropolis --- Gate of the Lions ... Customs --- Visit to the Vaivode --- Dispatch a Mes- senger to Constantinople - Visit the Acropolis accompanied by Signore ...
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... custom was not confined to them alone . Hadrian raised a splendid mausoleum to his favourite horse Borysthenes , inscribing it with an epitaph . ( Dion . Cass . 1. lxix . ) TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 28 interest , having been 2.
... custom was not confined to them alone . Hadrian raised a splendid mausoleum to his favourite horse Borysthenes , inscribing it with an epitaph . ( Dion . Cass . 1. lxix . ) TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 28 interest , having been 2.
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... custom did not obtain very early at Rome , for Plutarch in his life of Marcellus says , that when that conqueror wished to erect a temple out of his Sicilian spoils , to the deities Glory and Valour conjointly , he was prevented by the ...
... custom did not obtain very early at Rome , for Plutarch in his life of Marcellus says , that when that conqueror wished to erect a temple out of his Sicilian spoils , to the deities Glory and Valour conjointly , he was prevented by the ...
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... custom , extempore , and lasted more than an hour ; the pronunciation was so rapid , that I could with difficulty catch its mean- ing , except that it treated generally upon mysteries ; at times the preacher apostrophized a large ...
... custom , extempore , and lasted more than an hour ; the pronunciation was so rapid , that I could with difficulty catch its mean- ing , except that it treated generally upon mysteries ; at times the preacher apostrophized a large ...
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... custom of this prince himself to mix earthen vases together with those of gold at his entertainments , as a lesson to the younger guests , and an incitement to industry and valour . PROMONTORY OF PLEMMYRIUM . 55 propriated by Verres as the.
... custom of this prince himself to mix earthen vases together with those of gold at his entertainments , as a lesson to the younger guests , and an incitement to industry and valour . PROMONTORY OF PLEMMYRIUM . 55 propriated by Verres as the.
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