A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... important facts are stated ; those who desire more detailed information , and an account of the conflicting views held by modern scholars on certain pointş , must consult the original work . In such cases the present work will serve as ...
... important facts are stated ; those who desire more detailed information , and an account of the conflicting views held by modern scholars on certain pointş , must consult the original work . In such cases the present work will serve as ...
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... importance . At an early period were several nice distinctions established by after their institution ( B. c . 446 ) , we find them the law . If the wife was divorced for adul - appointed the keepers of the senatus - consulta , tery ...
... importance . At an early period were several nice distinctions established by after their institution ( B. c . 446 ) , we find them the law . If the wife was divorced for adul - appointed the keepers of the senatus - consulta , tery ...
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... importance , six aediles were annually elected . The two new plebeian aediles were called Cereales , and their duty was to look after a supply of corn . Though their office may not have been of any great importance after the institution ...
... importance , six aediles were annually elected . The two new plebeian aediles were called Cereales , and their duty was to look after a supply of corn . Though their office may not have been of any great importance after the institution ...
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... important seat in these assemblies , and near him sat the nobles , while the people stood or sat in a circle around them . The people appear to have had no right of speak- ing or voting in these assemblies , but merely to have been ...
... important seat in these assemblies , and near him sat the nobles , while the people stood or sat in a circle around them . The people appear to have had no right of speak- ing or voting in these assemblies , but merely to have been ...
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... important , in which the Am- phictyons were concerned ; and in this the Thebans availed themselves of the sanction of the council to take vengeance on their en- emies , the Phocians . To do this , however , it was necessary to call in ...
... important , in which the Am- phictyons were concerned ; and in this the Thebans availed themselves of the sanction of the council to take vengeance on their en- emies , the Phocians . To do this , however , it was necessary to call in ...
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Page 61 - XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV XIII XII XI X IX VIII VII VI v IV III p cT W S.
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