A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... described is indicated by the word argenti , referring to the vessels of silver which it contained , and being probably designed , like our WO word " plate , " to include similar articles made of gold and other precious substances.2 It ...
... described is indicated by the word argenti , referring to the vessels of silver which it contained , and being probably designed , like our WO word " plate , " to include similar articles made of gold and other precious substances.2 It ...
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... described by Dioscorides , ' the male and the female . The former of these , by the al- most general agreement of the commentators and botanical authorities , is referred to the Artemisia Abrotonum , L. , or Southernwood . About the ...
... described by Dioscorides , ' the male and the female . The former of these , by the al- most general agreement of the commentators and botanical authorities , is referred to the Artemisia Abrotonum , L. , or Southernwood . About the ...
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... described was probably intended to allow them to fit closer to the body , and thus to be concealed with greater ease under the garments . Thus we see that the Persian acinaces differed from the Ro- man sica in this , that the former was ...
... described was probably intended to allow them to fit closer to the body , and thus to be concealed with greater ease under the garments . Thus we see that the Persian acinaces differed from the Ro- man sica in this , that the former was ...
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... described by the ancients.1 * AIRA ( aipa ) , a plant , the same with the Lolium temulentum , L. , or Darnel . It may be confidently pronounced to be the " infelix lolium ” of Virgil ; and that it is the SiSavia of Scripture was first ...
... described by the ancients.1 * AIRA ( aipa ) , a plant , the same with the Lolium temulentum , L. , or Darnel . It may be confidently pronounced to be the " infelix lolium ” of Virgil ; and that it is the SiSavia of Scripture was first ...
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... described by Aristotle as being like the voca , but a little smaller ; it may therefore be supposed a mere va- riety of the Anas Boscas , or Wild Duck . 2. The Querquedula of Varro is referred by Turner to the species of duck called ...
... described by Aristotle as being like the voca , but a little smaller ; it may therefore be supposed a mere va- riety of the Anas Boscas , or Wild Duck . 2. The Querquedula of Varro is referred by Turner to the species of duck called ...
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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.