A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... given to a concert of players on different musical in- struments , and also to an interlude performed during the exhibition of the public games . The word is also applied to the actors and musicians who were employed to amuse guests ...
... given to a concert of players on different musical in- struments , and also to an interlude performed during the exhibition of the public games . The word is also applied to the actors and musicians who were employed to amuse guests ...
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... given differently by different authors . That which is most commonly followed is the one given by Varro , which corresponds to B. c . 753. It must be observed , that 753 A. U. C. is the first year before , and 754 A. U. C. the first ...
... given differently by different authors . That which is most commonly followed is the one given by Varro , which corresponds to B. c . 753. It must be observed , that 753 A. U. C. is the first year before , and 754 A. U. C. the first ...
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... given by the Roman state for the purchase of the knight's horse . This sum amounted to 10,000 asses . AES HORDEA ́RIUM , or HORDIA ́- RIUM , the sum of money paid yearly for the keep of a knight's horse ; in other words , The employment ...
... given by the Roman state for the purchase of the knight's horse . This sum amounted to 10,000 asses . AES HORDEA ́RIUM , or HORDIA ́- RIUM , the sum of money paid yearly for the keep of a knight's horse ; in other words , The employment ...
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... given under the name of the lex by which they are called . [ LEX . ] AGGER ( xua ) , from ad and gero , was used in general for a heap or mound of any kind . It was more particularly applied : 1. To a mound , usually composed of earth ...
... given under the name of the lex by which they are called . [ LEX . ] AGGER ( xua ) , from ad and gero , was used in general for a heap or mound of any kind . It was more particularly applied : 1. To a mound , usually composed of earth ...
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... given to the session at Delphi as well as to that at Thermopylae . The coun- cil was composed of two classes of represen- tatives , one called Pylagorae ( IIvλayópaι ) , and the other Hieromnemones ( ' Iepoμvýμoves ) . Athens sent three ...
... given to the session at Delphi as well as to that at Thermopylae . The coun- cil was composed of two classes of represen- tatives , one called Pylagorae ( IIvλayópaι ) , and the other Hieromnemones ( ' Iepoμvýμoves ) . Athens sent three ...
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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