A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... fact , part of the furniture of a triclinium , and was intended to contain the vessels usually required at meals . IX . Lastly , a part of the theatre was called " the abaci . " It seems to have been on or bakes , near the stage ...
... fact , part of the furniture of a triclinium , and was intended to contain the vessels usually required at meals . IX . Lastly , a part of the theatre was called " the abaci . " It seems to have been on or bakes , near the stage ...
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... fact we have no direct assurance ; but it is implied in one of the Greek names of this utensil , viz . , oğúbagov , from ¿ §ús , acid , and ẞánтw , to dip or immerse . It also suits the various secondary appli- cations of these terms ...
... fact we have no direct assurance ; but it is implied in one of the Greek names of this utensil , viz . , oğúbagov , from ¿ §ús , acid , and ẞánтw , to dip or immerse . It also suits the various secondary appli- cations of these terms ...
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... fact which was the only matter in issue ; and on finding the fact , to make the proper condemnatio : as in the case of a freedman bringing an action against his patronus . In the formula in jus the fact was not in issue , but the legal ...
... fact which was the only matter in issue ; and on finding the fact , to make the proper condemnatio : as in the case of a freedman bringing an action against his patronus . In the formula in jus the fact was not in issue , but the legal ...
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... fact that the Augustus appointed the curule ædiles specially to shields of the ancient Greeks were in part support- the office of putting out fires , and placed a body of ed by a belt or strap ( rehauúv , balteus ) passing over 600 ...
... fact that the Augustus appointed the curule ædiles specially to shields of the ancient Greeks were in part support- the office of putting out fires , and placed a body of ed by a belt or strap ( rehauúv , balteus ) passing over 600 ...
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... fact addresses the emperor as a divinity . * EGYPTIL'LA , a name common to several species of agate . It was , perhaps , the ancient de- nomination of what is still called Egyptian pebble ; a striped jasper ; the quartz agate onyx of ...
... fact addresses the emperor as a divinity . * EGYPTIL'LA , a name common to several species of agate . It was , perhaps , the ancient de- nomination of what is still called Egyptian pebble ; a striped jasper ; the quartz agate onyx of ...
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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.