A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... held her office for life . The following aeras were adopted in later times : -1 . the aera of the Trojan war ( B.C. 1184 ) , which was first made use of by Eratos- thenes . - 2 . the Olympic aera , which began B. c . 776. - 3 . the ...
... held her office for life . The following aeras were adopted in later times : -1 . the aera of the Trojan war ( B.C. 1184 ) , which was first made use of by Eratos- thenes . - 2 . the Olympic aera , which began B. c . 776. - 3 . the ...
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... held their office for two years . AERUSCATO'RES , were vagrants who obtained their living by fortune - telling and begging . They were called by the Greeks ἀγύρται . AES ( xahкós ) , properly signifies a com- pound of copper and tin ...
... held their office for two years . AERUSCATO'RES , were vagrants who obtained their living by fortune - telling and begging . They were called by the Greeks ἀγύρται . AES ( xahкós ) , properly signifies a com- pound of copper and tin ...
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... held for life ; but it only continued for a limited time , or till some object was accomplished . Thus we read that the inhabitants of Mytilene appointed Pittacus aesymnetes , in order to prevent the return of Alcaeus and the other ...
... held for life ; but it only continued for a limited time , or till some object was accomplished . Thus we read that the inhabitants of Mytilene appointed Pittacus aesymnetes , in order to prevent the return of Alcaeus and the other ...
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... held from the state the annual payments of a tenth and a fifth , which they were bound to pay for the possession of the land , and thus deprived the state of a fund for the expenses of the war . In addition to which they used slaves as ...
... held from the state the annual payments of a tenth and a fifth , which they were bound to pay for the possession of the land , and thus deprived the state of a fund for the expenses of the war . In addition to which they used slaves as ...
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... held ; and thus it came to be used for the market - place , where goods of all descriptions were bought and sold . The ex- pression agora plethousa ( ¿ yoрà Thýlovσa ) , ( ἀγορὰ " full market , " was used to signify the time from ...
... held ; and thus it came to be used for the market - place , where goods of all descriptions were bought and sold . The ex- pression agora plethousa ( ¿ yoрà Thýlovσa ) , ( ἀγορὰ " full market , " was used to signify the time from ...
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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