Travels in Sicily, Greece and AlbaniaJ. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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Page xi
... Sacred Feasts --- Decline and Extinction of the Oracle --- Delphic Laurel --- Departure to Salona --- Albanian Vaivode --- Description of Salona --- Acropolis of Amphissa --- Inhabitants --- Set sail on the Gulf of Crissa --- Dangerous ...
... Sacred Feasts --- Decline and Extinction of the Oracle --- Delphic Laurel --- Departure to Salona --- Albanian Vaivode --- Description of Salona --- Acropolis of Amphissa --- Inhabitants --- Set sail on the Gulf of Crissa --- Dangerous ...
Page 7
... sacred edifice of freedom , or have contented itself with introducing some practical reform into the established system of Sicilian legislature ; for instance , it might have obliged the nominal authorities to correct their worst abuses ...
... sacred edifice of freedom , or have contented itself with introducing some practical reform into the established system of Sicilian legislature ; for instance , it might have obliged the nominal authorities to correct their worst abuses ...
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... sacred charm around its rocks and mountains . Agrigentum , in its site , possessed something of the magnificent pecu- liar to itself . Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art τε * Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian ...
... sacred charm around its rocks and mountains . Agrigentum , in its site , possessed something of the magnificent pecu- liar to itself . Nature traced out its plan in a vast platform of rock ; Art τε * Strabo erred in calling it an Ionian ...
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... sacred festivals called Theoxenia , were instituted at Agrigentum . The SW . angle of the cliff is adorned by two elegant columns of the * It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor have ...
... sacred festivals called Theoxenia , were instituted at Agrigentum . The SW . angle of the cliff is adorned by two elegant columns of the * It is plain he never could have read the account of this very temple in Diod . Sic . nor have ...
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... sacred fish , which even in the extremity of famine were not to be touched without the vengeance of offended deities ; not a vestige remained of its former splendour , of Diana's grove , or that statue of the goddess which adorned its ...
... sacred fish , which even in the extremity of famine were not to be touched without the vengeance of offended deities ; not a vestige remained of its former splendour , of Diana's grove , or that statue of the goddess which adorned its ...
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