A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... measure of length , also called actus quadratus , was equal to half a jugerum , or 14,400 square Roman feet . The actus minimus , or simplex , was 120 feet long , and four broad , and therefore equal to 480 square Roman feet . Actus was ...
... measure of length , also called actus quadratus , was equal to half a jugerum , or 14,400 square Roman feet . The actus minimus , or simplex , was 120 feet long , and four broad , and therefore equal to 480 square Roman feet . Actus was ...
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... measures ; from this part of their duty is derived the name under which the aediles are mentioned by the Greek writers ( ¿ yopavóuoi ) . It was their business to see that no new deities or religious rites were introduced into the city ...
... measures ; from this part of their duty is derived the name under which the aediles are mentioned by the Greek writers ( ¿ yopavóuoi ) . It was their business to see that no new deities or religious rites were introduced into the city ...
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... measure unassigned lands for the state , and ordinary lands for the proprietors , and to fix and maintain boundaries . Their writings on the subject of their art were very numerous ; and we have still scientific treatises on the law of ...
... measure unassigned lands for the state , and ordinary lands for the proprietors , and to fix and maintain boundaries . Their writings on the subject of their art were very numerous ; and we have still scientific treatises on the law of ...
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... measure of length , ( feet ) ; that is , twenty yards 8.1 inches Eng- lish . It was used in measuring land . In Greek amicire is expressed by aμpiέvvv - equal to forty nxels ( cubits ) , or sixty πódes σθαι , ἀμπέχεσθαι , ἐπιβάλλεσθαι ...
... measure of length , ( feet ) ; that is , twenty yards 8.1 inches Eng- lish . It was used in measuring land . In Greek amicire is expressed by aμpiέvvv - equal to forty nxels ( cubits ) , or sixty πódes σθαι , ἀμπέχεσθαι , ἐπιβάλλεσθαι ...
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... measuring from the ground to the top of the parapet ; a height considered ne- cessary , in order to render the spectators perfectly secure from the attacks of wild beasts . There were four principal entrances leading into the arena ...
... measuring from the ground to the top of the parapet ; a height considered ne- cessary , in order to render the spectators perfectly secure from the attacks of wild beasts . There were four principal entrances leading into the arena ...
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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