A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... applied to the actors and musicians who were employed to amuse guests during an entertainment , and is some- times used to designate the anagnostae . [ ANAGNOSTES . ] ACRO POLIS ( άkpóñoλiç ) . In almost all Greek cities , which were ...
... applied to the actors and musicians who were employed to amuse guests during an entertainment , and is some- times used to designate the anagnostae . [ ANAGNOSTES . ] ACRO POLIS ( άkpóñoλiç ) . In almost all Greek cities , which were ...
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... applied in the Ro- man law to a person from the end of his twelfth or fourteenth to the end of his twen- ty - fifth year , during which period a person was also called adultus . The word adoles- cens , however , is frequently used in a ...
... applied in the Ro- man law to a person from the end of his twelfth or fourteenth to the end of his twen- ty - fifth year , during which period a person was also called adultus . The word adoles- cens , however , is frequently used in a ...
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... applied to a slave who had to per- form the lowest menial duties . AGATHOERGI ( ' Aya @ oɛpyoí ) . In time of war the kings of Sparta had a body - guard of three hundred of the noblest of the Spartan youths ( inπεīs ) , of whom the five ...
... applied to a slave who had to per- form the lowest menial duties . AGATHOERGI ( ' Aya @ oɛpyoí ) . In time of war the kings of Sparta had a body - guard of three hundred of the noblest of the Spartan youths ( inπεīs ) , of whom the five ...
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... applied : 1. To a mound , usually composed of earth , which was raised round a besieged town , and which was gradually increased in breadth and height , till it equalled or overtopped the walls . The agger was sometimes made not only of ...
... applied : 1. To a mound , usually composed of earth , which was raised round a besieged town , and which was gradually increased in breadth and height , till it equalled or overtopped the walls . The agger was sometimes made not only of ...
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... applied to a regiment of cavalry , which usually con- sisted of 500 men . ALAUDA , the name of a legion which Caesar levied in Cisalpine Gaul , and organ- ized at his own expense during his Gallic wars . He afterwards gave the Roman ...
... applied to a regiment of cavalry , which usually con- sisted of 500 men . ALAUDA , the name of a legion which Caesar levied in Cisalpine Gaul , and organ- ized at his own expense during his Gallic wars . He afterwards gave the Roman ...
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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