Pausanias's Description of Greece, Volume 4

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Página 299 - Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
Página 315 - Synagogue who lived at the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century BC...
Página 380 - ... (R. Taylor, Te ika a maui ; or New Zealand and its Inhabitants, p.
Página 263 - The temple and the village were deeply bosomed in a thick grove of laurels and cypresses, which reached as far as a circumference of ten miles and formed in the most sultry summers a cool and impenetrable shade. A thousand streams of the purest water issuing from every hill, preserved the verdure of the earth, and the temperature of the air...
Página 20 - Jewish community at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the fourth century with Ezra's mission according to the late chronology (398 BC).
Página 408 - Journal of Hellenic Studies, 14 (1894), pp. 8 1 sqq.) 138 sqq. We may perhaps infer that hybrid forms of this sort were commoner in the early than in the fully-developed art of Greece. We have seen from Pausanias (viii. 41. 6) that not far from Phigalia there was an image of Eurynome with the body of a woman and the tail of a fish ; it was probably very ancient. 42. 4. a dolphin a dove. As the dolphin was an attribute of Poseidon and the dove of Aphrodite, the two together in the hands of Demeter...
Página 355 - And the natives of Tonga cut off a portion of the little finger as a sacrifice to the gods, for the recovery of a superior sick relative.
Página 151 - Well, in the village of Shadar, is by the vulgar natives made a test to Know if a sick person will die of the distemper he labours under. They send one with a wooden dish, to bring some of the water to the patient, and if the dish, which is then laid softly upon the surface of the water, turn round sun-ways, they conclude that the patient will recover of that distemper ; but if otherwise, that he will die.
Página 88 - Roman period ; it may date from the end of the second or the beginning of the first century BC The Corinthian capitals, however, are carefully modelled and well executed.

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