A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... derived from the best modern writers , and which should bring up the subject , so to speak , to the present state of philological learning , would form a useful acquisition to all persons engaged in the study of antiquity . It was ...
... derived from the best modern writers , and which should bring up the subject , so to speak , to the present state of philological learning , would form a useful acquisition to all persons engaged in the study of antiquity . It was ...
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... derived from this plant's having been used to produce abortion . The Abiga is the same with the Chamæpitys ( Xauainí- Tug ) of the Greeks . The three species of the latter described by Dioscorides have been the subject of much diversity ...
... derived from this plant's having been used to produce abortion . The Abiga is the same with the Chamæpitys ( Xauainí- Tug ) of the Greeks . The three species of the latter described by Dioscorides have been the subject of much diversity ...
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... derived the ædiles arose after the close of the second Punic the name under which the ædiles are mentioned by war , and increased with the opportunities which the Greek writers ( ȧyopavóμo ) . It was their bu- individuals had of ...
... derived the ædiles arose after the close of the second Punic the name under which the ædiles are mentioned by war , and increased with the opportunities which the Greek writers ( ȧyopavóμo ) . It was their bu- individuals had of ...
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... derived , no doubt , from some still more ancient type , represent her in a state of repose , and with the goatskin falling obliquely from its loose fastening over her right shoulder , so as to pass round the body under the left arm ...
... derived , no doubt , from some still more ancient type , represent her in a state of repose , and with the goatskin falling obliquely from its loose fastening over her right shoulder , so as to pass round the body under the left arm ...
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... derived from the old augurial method of form- ing the templum . The word templum , like the Greek réuevos , simply means a division ; its application to signify the vault of the heavens was due to the fact that the directions were ...
... derived from the old augurial method of form- ing the templum . The word templum , like the Greek réuevos , simply means a division ; its application to signify the vault of the heavens was due to the fact that the directions were ...
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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
Page 104 - Each legion was divided into ten cohorts, each cohort into three maniples, and each maniple into two...
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...
Page 259 - With us practically, if not in theory, the essential object of a state hardly embraces more than the protection of life and property. The Greeks, on the other hand, had the most vivid conception of the state as a whole, every part of which was to co-operate to some great end to which all other duties were considered as subordinate.
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.