A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... five years in commemoration of his victory . A CTIO , is defined by a Roman jurist to be the right of pursuing by judicial means what is a man's due . The old actions of the Roman law were called legis actiones or legitimae , either ...
... five years in commemoration of his victory . A CTIO , is defined by a Roman jurist to be the right of pursuing by judicial means what is a man's due . The old actions of the Roman law were called legis actiones or legitimae , either ...
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... Five Hundred . Pisistratus is said to have been the first to introduce a law for the mainte- nance of those persons who had been muti- lated in war . ADVOCA ́TUS , seems originally to have signified any person , who gave another his aid ...
... Five Hundred . Pisistratus is said to have been the first to introduce a law for the mainte- nance of those persons who had been muti- lated in war . ADVOCA ́TUS , seems originally to have signified any person , who gave another his aid ...
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... five days after being elected , or entering on office , they were re- quired to determine by lot , or by agreement among themselves , what parts of the city each should take under his superintendence ; and each aedile alone had the care ...
... five days after being elected , or entering on office , they were re- quired to determine by lot , or by agreement among themselves , what parts of the city each should take under his superintendence ; and each aedile alone had the care ...
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... five years before the first Punic war , when silver was first coined ; gold was not coined till sixty - two years after silver . The first coinage of aes is usually attributed to Servius Tullius , who is said to have stamp- ed the money ...
... five years before the first Punic war , when silver was first coined ; gold was not coined till sixty - two years after silver . The first coinage of aes is usually attributed to Servius Tullius , who is said to have stamp- ed the money ...
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... five eldest re- tired every year , and were employed for one year under the name of Agathoergi , in missions to foreign states . AGEMA ( άγημα from ἄγω ) , the name of a chosen body of troops in the Macedonian army , usually consisting ...
... five eldest re- tired every year , and were employed for one year under the name of Agathoergi , in missions to foreign states . AGEMA ( άγημα from ἄγω ) , the name of a chosen body of troops in the Macedonian army , usually consisting ...
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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