A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesHarper & Brothers, 1872 - 1116 pages |
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... writers on the subject , whose works are contained in the collections of Gro novius and Grævius , display little historical criticism , and give no comprehensive view or living idea of the public and private life of the ancients . They ...
... writers on the subject , whose works are contained in the collections of Gro novius and Grævius , display little historical criticism , and give no comprehensive view or living idea of the public and private life of the ancients . They ...
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... writer to give a complete account of a subject under one head , which cannot so well be done in a systematic work . An ... writers of the articles which they illustrate , and the drawings have been made under their superintendence . Many ...
... writer to give a complete account of a subject under one head , which cannot so well be done in a systematic work . An ... writers of the articles which they illustrate , and the drawings have been made under their superintendence . Many ...
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... writers of whose labours he has availed himself , if any of these articles should ever fall in their way . It will be apparent that these articles have been written mainly with the view of illustrating the classical writers ; and that a ...
... writers of whose labours he has availed himself , if any of these articles should ever fall in their way . It will be apparent that these articles have been written mainly with the view of illustrating the classical writers ; and that a ...
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... writers on the Materia Medica , notice only one species , which no doubt was the A. abrotonum . " * ABSIN'THIUM ( úpivotov ) , a plant , of which Dioscorides describes three species . The first of these is pretty generally acknowledged ...
... writers on the Materia Medica , notice only one species , which no doubt was the A. abrotonum . " * ABSIN'THIUM ( úpivotov ) , a plant , of which Dioscorides describes three species . The first of these is pretty generally acknowledged ...
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... writers , the word only means the pediment on which Pollux mentions it in his account of ancient drink- the ornaments are placed . II . It signified also the ing vessels , and describes it as resting , not on a flat Dottom , but on ...
... writers , the word only means the pediment on which Pollux mentions it in his account of ancient drink- the ornaments are placed . II . It signified also the ing vessels , and describes it as resting , not on a flat Dottom , but on ...
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