A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... four broad , and therefore equal to 480 square Roman feet . Actus was also used to signify a bridle way . ACUS ( BEλóvn , Beλovis , papiç ) , a needle , a pin . Pins were made not only of metal , but also of wood , bone , and ivory ...
... four broad , and therefore equal to 480 square Roman feet . Actus was also used to signify a bridle way . ACUS ( BEλóvn , Beλovis , papiç ) , a needle , a pin . Pins were made not only of metal , but also of wood , bone , and ivory ...
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... four days in- stead of three ; upon which a senatus - con- sultum was passed , by which two aediles were to be chosen from the patricians . From this time four aediles , two plebeian and two curule , were annually elected . The distinc ...
... four days in- stead of three ; upon which a senatus - con- sultum was passed , by which two aediles were to be chosen from the patricians . From this time four aediles , two plebeian and two curule , were annually elected . The distinc ...
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... four ceruchi , as in the annexed cut . Antenna , Yard of a Ship . When a storm arose , or when the port was obtained , or before an engagement , the an- tenna was lowered to the middle of the mast . From numerous representations of ...
... four ceruchi , as in the annexed cut . Antenna , Yard of a Ship . When a storm arose , or when the port was obtained , or before an engagement , the an- tenna was lowered to the middle of the mast . From numerous representations of ...
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... four white horses , and went along the principal street of the city to the temple of the guardian deity of the state . Those games , which gave the conquerors the right of such an entrance into the city , were called Iselastici ( from ...
... four white horses , and went along the principal street of the city to the temple of the guardian deity of the state . Those games , which gave the conquerors the right of such an entrance into the city , were called Iselastici ( from ...
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... four in number : whether , as Livy supposes , the deficiency was accidental , is uncertain . By the law just mentioned , their number became nine , five of whom were cho- sen from the plebs . The dictator Sulla fur- ther increased them ...
... four in number : whether , as Livy supposes , the deficiency was accidental , is uncertain . By the law just mentioned , their number became nine , five of whom were cho- sen from the plebs . The dictator Sulla fur- ther increased them ...
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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