Bibliotheca Classica, Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms Relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and of the Ancients: With a Chronological TableW.E. Dean, printer, 1833 - 793 pages |
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Acarnania according Achæans Adriatic Africa afterwards Alexander Alps ancient antiquity 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 Diod east Egypt emperor empire Epirus Etruria Euxine extended famous formed Gaul Greece Greeks gulf Herodot Homer honour Horat inhabitants 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 shore Sicily side Sinus situated Spain Sparta stadia Strab supposed surnamed Syria Tacit tains temple territory Thessaly Thrace tion town tribes Trojan Umbria Virg walls waters whence writers wrote
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Page 351 - 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.
Page 317 - ACHILLES, the son of Peleus and Thetis, was the bravest of all the Greeks in the Trojan war. During his infancy, Thetis plunged him in the Styx, and made every part of his body invulnerable, except the heel by which she held him. Hi...
Page 377 - He was present at an engagement in Asia, where he received a heavy wound, and hastened immediately out of the battle, and dropped down dead as soon as he had set down the king in a safe place. He was 30 years old when he died, and Alexander built a city which he called after his name.
Page 255 - ... 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 hous.e, 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...
Page 375 - Indian philosophers, who derive their name from Brahma, one of the three beings whom God, according to their theology, created, and with whose assistance he formed the world.
Page 255 - Here not a temple, nor a theatre, ntflr a column, nor a house, but a whole city rises before us untouched, unaltered, the very same as it was eighteen hundred years ago, when inhabited by Romans. We range through the same streets, tread the very same pavement, behold the same walls, enter the same doors, and repose in the same apartments.
Page 327 - Agnodice, an Athenian virgin, who disguised her sex to learn medicine. She was taught by Hierophilus the art of midwifery, and when employed always discovered her sex to her patients^ This brought her into so much practice, that...
Page 179 - Raowolf and Kort in August. But it does not appear that any of the exposed peaks are covered with snow. The coolness, the humidity, and the good quality of the soil, maintain a perpetual verdure. These bounties of nature are protected by the spirit of liberty. It is to an industry less...
Page 12 - 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.
Page 292 - Argsus, now named Argis-Dag, whose summit is covered with perpetual snows,'}' a circumstance which, under so low a latitude, shows an elevation of from 9 to 10,000 feet. The centre of Asia resembles a terrace supported on all sides by chains of mountains. Here we find salt marshes, and rivers which have no outlets. It contains a number of small plateaus, one of which Strabo has described under the name of the plain of Bagaudene.