 | Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 pages
...l>eU>w the cav«, Pausanlas says, 'there were two streams; one, of Memory; the other of Oblivion.' It was supposed to be one of the entrances to the infernal regions ; and those who descended into this cave, never laughed again. Of the Boeotian capital, our author... | |
 | sir Grenville Temple Temple (10th bart.) - 1836 - 628 pages
...to be derived from the Phoenician word Tinar, " a rock." It was formerly famous for its purple <lye, to which Valerius Flaccus alludes — Accipe Tsenarii...; whilst inland of Cape Matapan the land of Maina first swelled into the Kakabool range, and afterwards into the mountains of Taygetus, the present Pente... | |
 | Lucianus (of Samosata.) - 1856 - 424 pages
...promontory of Attica, above 40 miles from Athens. the most southern promontory of Lyconia; where was a cavern which was supposed to be one of the entrances to hell, and the passage by which Hercules dragged up Cerberu» TANTALUS : a king of Phrvgia, and (as... | |
 | Lucianus (of Samosata.) - 1859 - 396 pages
...Socrates stands unique. T. TcuWpoç, ou, ó, Tœnarus, the most southern promontory of Laconia; where was a cavern which was supposed to be one of the entrances to hell, and the passage by which Hercules dragged up Cerberus. Tarai'c, iSoç, ó, Tañáis, a river... | |
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Tsenarii chlamydem de sanguine aheni ; and for a cavern, which was supposed to be one of the entrances to the infernal regions. 