A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... common λárn of the Greeks must have been either the Pinus abies or the Pinus Ori- VII . By another variation the ABACUS was adapt- ed for playing with dice or counters . The Greeks had a tradition ascribing this contrivance to Palame ...
... common λárn of the Greeks must have been either the Pinus abies or the Pinus Ori- VII . By another variation the ABACUS was adapt- ed for playing with dice or counters . The Greeks had a tradition ascribing this contrivance to Palame ...
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... common Lavender Cotton . Adams decides in favour of the last . Galen recognises the two species described by Dioscorides ; but Nicander , Paulus Ægineta , and most of the other writers on the Materia Medica , notice only one species ...
... common Lavender Cotton . Adams decides in favour of the last . Galen recognises the two species described by Dioscorides ; but Nicander , Paulus Ægineta , and most of the other writers on the Materia Medica , notice only one species ...
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... common - tained various provisions . By one clause it was ly exhibited either with the ægis itself , or with some provided that manumitted slaves , who , during their emblem of it , yet we seldom find it as an attribute servitude , had ...
... common - tained various provisions . By one clause it was ly exhibited either with the ægis itself , or with some provided that manumitted slaves , who , during their emblem of it , yet we seldom find it as an attribute servitude , had ...
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... common æra till a comparatively late period . The Athenians reckoned their years by the name of the chief archon of each year , whence he was called aρxwv ¿ ñúvvμoc ; the Lacedæmonians by one of the ephors ; and the Argives by the chief ...
... common æra till a comparatively late period . The Athenians reckoned their years by the name of the chief archon of each year , whence he was called aρxwv ¿ ñúvvμoc ; the Lacedæmonians by one of the ephors ; and the Argives by the chief ...
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... common amethyst . The ancients , on the other hand , reckoned five species , differing in degrees of colour . Their Indian amethyst , to which Pliny assigns the first rank among purple or violet - col- oured gems , appears to have been ...
... common amethyst . The ancients , on the other hand , reckoned five species , differing in degrees of colour . Their Indian amethyst , to which Pliny assigns the first rank among purple or violet - col- oured gems , appears to have been ...
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Page 208 - And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Page 50 - They bound themselves by an oath that ' 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 anything against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand, and foot, and voice, and all their might
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Page 126 - The chief duties of augurs were to observe and report supernatural signs. They were also the repositories of the ceremonial law, and had to advise on the expiation of prodigies and other matters of religious observance. The sources of their art were threefold: first, the formulas and traditions of the college, which in ancient times met on the nones of every month ; secondly, the...
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Page 164 - Ep. 75) alludes to a person who married in order to comply with the law. That which was caducum came, in the first place, to those among the heredes who had children ; and if the heredes had no children, it came among those of the legatees who had children. The law gave the jus accrescendi, that is, the right to the caducum as far as the third degree of consanguinity, both ascending and descending (Ulp. Frag.