Archaeologia Graeca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece, Band 2Stirling & Slade, 1818 |
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... designed by nature for breeding horses ; we find ac- cordingly , the Athenian cavalry to have been exceeding few in number , consisting only of ninety - six horsemen ; for the whole Athenian nation being anciently divided into forty ...
... designed by nature for breeding horses ; we find ac- cordingly , the Athenian cavalry to have been exceeding few in number , consisting only of ninety - six horsemen ; for the whole Athenian nation being anciently divided into forty ...
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... designed to make his first journey from Trozen to Athens , Plutarch tells us , that his relations would have persuad- ed him to go by sea . For , ' says he , it was at that time very dan- gerous to travel by land to Athens , no place of ...
... designed to make his first journey from Trozen to Athens , Plutarch tells us , that his relations would have persuad- ed him to go by sea . For , ' says he , it was at that time very dan- gerous to travel by land to Athens , no place of ...
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... designed as an or- nament to the helmet . The other likewise was adorned with divers sorts of paint ; whence Pollux gives it the epithets of svævens , üœxıv- voops . Homer has enriched it with gold a ; Τεύξε δέ οἱ κόρυθα βριαρὴν ...
... designed as an or- nament to the helmet . The other likewise was adorned with divers sorts of paint ; whence Pollux gives it the epithets of svævens , üœxıv- voops . Homer has enriched it with gold a ; Τεύξε δέ οἱ κόρυθα βριαρὴν ...
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... designed for no greater service , than to cast stones out of a sling ; and very few were regularly armed ' . ' The form of a sling we may learn from Dionysius , by whom the earth is said to resemble it , being not exactly spherical ...
... designed for no greater service , than to cast stones out of a sling ; and very few were regularly armed ' . ' The form of a sling we may learn from Dionysius , by whom the earth is said to resemble it , being not exactly spherical ...
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... designed to receive the cuneus . Пion , Пvela , laterculus , an army drawn up in the figure of a brick or tile , with four unequal sides ; its length was extended towards the enemy , and exceeded the depth . Пúgyos , turris , was the ...
... designed to receive the cuneus . Пion , Пvela , laterculus , an army drawn up in the figure of a brick or tile , with four unequal sides ; its length was extended towards the enemy , and exceeded the depth . Пúgyos , turris , was the ...
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Achilles adorned Æneid afterwards Agamemnon ages ancient appears Aristophanes arms army Athenæus Athenians Athens battle body bucklers called chariots command commonly custom customary dead death deities Diodorus Diodorus Siculus Edinburgh Published enemies entertainments Euripides Eustathius farther former frequently funeral gods Grecians Greece Greek hair hath helmet Hence Herodotus heroes Hesychius Homer honour horses hung Iliad instances invention king Lacedæmonians Latin laws likewise Lycophron manner married mention oars obliged observed Odyss Orat Pausanias persons Plutarchus poet Pollux POPE Published by Doig quæ rest Roman Scholiastes seems ships signify slain soldiers solemn Solon sometimes sorts Spartan speaks spears Statius Strabo Suidas termed thing thought Thucydides tomb Trojan Trojan war usually Virgil whence whereby wherein whereof women Xenophon γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ κατὰ μὲν μοι οἱ Οὐ τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Seite 90 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...
Seite 302 - For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Seite 282 - Here sacred pomp and genial feast delight, And solemn dance, and hymeneal rite; Along the street the new-made brides are led, With torches flaming to the nuptial bed : The youthful dancers in a circle bound To the soft flute, and cithern's silver sound: Through the fair streets the matrons in a row Stand in their porches, and enjoy the show.
Seite 255 - Smear'd with these pow'rful juices, on the plain, He howls a wolf among the hungry train; And oft the mighty necromancer boasts, With these, to call from tombs the stalking ghosts...
Seite 102 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs, unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove.
Seite 189 - He clears the deck, receives the mighty freight : The leaky vessel groans beneath the weight. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides : * The pressing water pours within her sides. His passengers at length are wafted o'er, Expos'd, in muddy weeds, upon the miry shore. No sooner landed, in his den they found The triple porter of the Stygian sound, Grim Cerberus, who soon began to rear His crested snakes, and arm'd his bristling hair.
Seite 113 - The coat of arms by proud Mezentius worn, Now on a naked snag in triumph borne, , Was hung on high, and glitter'd from afar, A trophy sacred to the god of war. Above his arms, fix'd on the leafless wood, Appear'd his plumy crest, besmear'd...
Seite 343 - This only from your goodness let me gain (And, this ungranted, all rewards are vain) : Of Priam's royal race my mother came — And sure the best that ever bore the name — = Whom neither Troy nor Sicily could hold From me departing, but, o'erspent and old, My fate she follow'd.
Seite 85 - As torrents roll, increas'd by numerous rills, With rage impetuous down their echoing hills ; Rush to the vales, and, pour'd along the plain, Roar through a thousand channels to the main ; The distant shepherd trembling hears the sound : So mix both hosts, and so their cries rebound.
Seite 107 - His acquaintance with books was extensive and accurate, as sufficiently appears from the concise abridgment of opinions, and the numerous quotations which are found in his works.