A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pages |
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... vessel or boat used by the Greeks , which appears to have been the same as the Roman scapha . The Acatia were also sails adapted for fast sailing . ACCENSUS . 1. A public officer , who at- tended on several of the Roman magistrates . He ...
... vessel or boat used by the Greeks , which appears to have been the same as the Roman scapha . The Acatia were also sails adapted for fast sailing . ACCENSUS . 1. A public officer , who at- tended on several of the Roman magistrates . He ...
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... vessels . usually had their swords suspended on the left side . The form of the acinaces , with the mode of wearing it ... vessel as a mark of victory : the act of doing so was called ἀκρωτηριάζειν . ACTA DIURNA ( proceedings of the day ) ...
... vessels . usually had their swords suspended on the left side . The form of the acinaces , with the mode of wearing it ... vessel as a mark of victory : the act of doing so was called ἀκρωτηριάζειν . ACTA DIURNA ( proceedings of the day ) ...
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... vessels , seem to have been built in a lighter style than the ordinary ships of burden , from which they also differed in being always furnished with oars , whereas the others were chiefly pro- pelled by sails . ACTUA RII , short - hand ...
... vessels , seem to have been built in a lighter style than the ordinary ships of burden , from which they also differed in being always furnished with oars , whereas the others were chiefly pro- pelled by sails . ACTUA RII , short - hand ...
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... vessels made of brass , which were used in explaining the origin . & c . of the winds . These vessels , which had a very small orifice , were filled with water and placed on the fire , by which , of course , steam was created . AERA , a ...
... vessels made of brass , which were used in explaining the origin . & c . of the winds . These vessels , which had a very small orifice , were filled with water and placed on the fire , by which , of course , steam was created . AERA , a ...
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... vessels appropriated to these uses , even when they were not made of the material from which it is supposed they originally re- ceived their name . Theocritus thus speaks of golden alabastra . These vessels were of a tapering shape ...
... vessels appropriated to these uses , even when they were not made of the material from which it is supposed they originally re- ceived their name . Theocritus thus speaks of golden alabastra . These vessels were of a tapering shape ...
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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