A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... round the body under the left arm . The serpents of the Gorgon's head are transferred to the border of the skin . ( See the left - hand figure in the cut . ) The later poets and ar- tists represent the aegis as a breastplate cov- ered ...
... round the body under the left arm . The serpents of the Gorgon's head are transferred to the border of the skin . ( See the left - hand figure in the cut . ) The later poets and ar- tists represent the aegis as a breastplate cov- ered ...
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... round the forum . AES EQUESTRE , the sum of money 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 ...
... round the forum . AES EQUESTRE , the sum of money 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 ...
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... round a besieged town , and which was gradually increased in breadth and height , till it equalled or overtopped the walls . The agger was sometimes made not only of earth , but of wood , hurdles , & c .; whence we read of the agger ...
... round a besieged town , and which was gradually increased in breadth and height , till it equalled or overtopped the walls . The agger was sometimes made not only of earth , but of wood , hurdles , & c .; whence we read of the agger ...
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... rounds or taking his walk , was accom panied by a nomenclator , who gave him the names of such persons as he might meet ; the candidate was thus enabled to address them by their name , an indirect compliment , which could not fail to be ...
... rounds or taking his walk , was accom panied by a nomenclator , who gave him the names of such persons as he might meet ; the candidate was thus enabled to address them by their name , an indirect compliment , which could not fail to be ...
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... round the fire by the nurse , and thus , as it were , presented to the gods of the house and to the family , and at the same time received its name , to which the guests were witnesses . The carrying of the child round the hearth was ...
... round the fire by the nurse , and thus , as it were , presented to the gods of the house and to the family , and at the same time received its name , to which the guests were witnesses . The carrying of the child round the hearth was ...
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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