A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... probably in Attica , whose duties corre- sponded in most respects to those of the asty nomi in the city , and who appear to have per- formed nearly the same duties as the hylori ( vλwpoí ) . AGRO TERAS THU'SIA ( ' Ayрoτépas Ovoía ) , a ...
... probably in Attica , whose duties corre- sponded in most respects to those of the asty nomi in the city , and who appear to have per- formed nearly the same duties as the hylori ( vλwpoí ) . AGRO TERAS THU'SIA ( ' Ayрoτépas Ovoía ) , a ...
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... probably for a longer period . Respecting the relative duties of the Pylagorae and Hie- name of the latter implies that they had a more immediate connexion with the temple . We are equally in the dark respecting the numbers who sat in ...
... probably for a longer period . Respecting the relative duties of the Pylagorae and Hie- name of the latter implies that they had a more immediate connexion with the temple . We are equally in the dark respecting the numbers who sat in ...
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... probably in some degree resembled our morris dances , and in which they struck the shields with rods , so as to keep time with their voices , and with the movements of their dance . The preceding cut shows one of these rods , as ...
... probably in some degree resembled our morris dances , and in which they struck the shields with rods , so as to keep time with their voices , and with the movements of their dance . The preceding cut shows one of these rods , as ...
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... probably never granted to any one who did not possess this census . Those who lost their property , or were found guilty of a criminal offence , lost the jus annuli . The signs engraved upon rings were very various : they were portraits ...
... probably never granted to any one who did not possess this census . Those who lost their property , or were found guilty of a criminal offence , lost the jus annuli . The signs engraved upon rings were very various : they were portraits ...
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... probably selected for this duty on occount of their bra- very and experience in war . ANTIDOSIS ( àvτídoσiç ) , in its literal and general meaning , " an exchange , " was , in the language of the Attic courts , peculiarly ap- plied to ...
... probably selected for this duty on occount of their bra- very and experience in war . ANTIDOSIS ( àvτídoσiç ) , in its literal and general meaning , " an exchange , " was , in the language of the Attic courts , peculiarly ap- plied to ...
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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