A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... Greek and Roman entertain- ment , see SYMPOSIUM and TRICLINIUM . ACCUSA TOR , ACCUSATIO . [ JUDEX . ] ACERRA ( θυμιατήριον , λιβανωτρίς ) , the incense - box or censer used in sacrifices . AMPANA ACCUBA TIO , the act of reclining at ...
... Greek and Roman entertain- ment , see SYMPOSIUM and TRICLINIUM . ACCUSA TOR , ACCUSATIO . [ JUDEX . ] ACERRA ( θυμιατήριον , λιβανωτρίς ) , the incense - box or censer used in sacrifices . AMPANA ACCUBA TIO , the act of reclining at ...
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... Greek cities , which were usually built upon a hill , rock , or some natural elevation , there was a castle or a citadel , erected upon the highest part of the rock or hill , to which the name of Acropolis , higher or upper city , was ...
... Greek cities , which were usually built upon a hill , rock , or some natural elevation , there was a castle or a citadel , erected upon the highest part of the rock or hill , to which the name of Acropolis , higher or upper city , was ...
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... Greeks vɛwkópoι , Čúkopol , and or exercised himself , the office of superin- о ( úкороi ) , were persons who took care of tending the religious rites , and the banishing the temples , attended to the cleaning of them , from the city of ...
... Greeks vɛwkópoι , Čúkopol , and or exercised himself , the office of superin- о ( úкороi ) , were persons who took care of tending the religious rites , and the banishing the temples , attended to the cleaning of them , from the city of ...
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... Greeks ἀγύρται . AES ( xahкós ) , properly signifies a com- pound of copper and tin , corresponding to what we call bronze . It is incorrect to trans- late it brass , which is a combination of cop- per and zinc , since all the specimens ...
... Greeks ἀγύρται . AES ( xahкós ) , properly signifies a com- pound of copper and tin , corresponding to what we call bronze . It is incorrect to trans- late it brass , which is a combination of cop- per and zinc , since all the specimens ...
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... Greek states . His power , according to Aristotle , partook in some degree of the nature both of kingly and tyrannical authority , since he was appointed legally , and did not usurp the government , but at the same time was not bound by ...
... Greek states . His power , according to Aristotle , partook in some degree of the nature both of kingly and tyrannical authority , since he was appointed legally , and did not usurp the government , but at the same time was not bound by ...
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Page 40 - The next and most common form is that which has the two-faced head of Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the other (whence the expression used by Roman boys in tossing up, Capita...
Page 18 - They would destroy no city of the Amphictyons, nor cut off their streams in war or peace ; and if any should do so, they would march against him and destroy his cities ; and should any pillage the property of the god, or be privy to or plan any thing against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand and foot, and voice, and all their might.
Page 134 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
Page 110 - Persia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft.
Page 304 - SUOVETAURI'LIA. [SACRIFICIUM, p. 277; LUSTRATIO, p. 206; and wood-cut on p. 296.] SU'PPARUM. [NAVis, p. 224.] SUPPER. [COENA; DEIPNON.] SUPPUCA'TIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened, and the statues of the gods frequently placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which the people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers.
Page 304 - Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated a person of a peculiar class, not capable of being described by any single word in our language, but well understood and appreciated by an Athenian. He had not much in common with our sycophant, but was a happy compound of the common barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer.
Page 348 - vallus,' ' a stake ; ' and properly means the palisade which ran along the outer edge of the ' agger,' or ' mound ; ' but it frequently includes the ' agger