A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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... manner . These parts were also called Porricia , Prosegmina , Prosecta . ( Vid . SACRIFICES . ) ABOLLA , a woollen cloak or pall , is probably only a varied form of pallium ( pupos ) , with which this word is nearly , if not altogether ...
... manner . These parts were also called Porricia , Prosegmina , Prosecta . ( Vid . SACRIFICES . ) ABOLLA , a woollen cloak or pall , is probably only a varied form of pallium ( pupos ) , with which this word is nearly , if not altogether ...
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... manner as a fish exists in the midst of the sea without acquiring any flavour of salt from the salt water . This may there- fore be called an acrostic within an acrostic . " ACROTERIUM ( ȧkрwτηplov ) signifies the ex- tremity of ...
... manner as a fish exists in the midst of the sea without acquiring any flavour of salt from the salt water . This may there- fore be called an acrostic within an acrostic . " ACROTERIUM ( ȧkрwτηplov ) signifies the ex- tremity of ...
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... manner . This law did not inflict the punishment adoption could not produce the effects of a proper of death on either party ; and in those instances adoption . It could give to the person so said to be under the emperors in which death ...
... manner . This law did not inflict the punishment adoption could not produce the effects of a proper of death on either party ; and in those instances adoption . It could give to the person so said to be under the emperors in which death ...
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... manner ; and and his munificent expenditure in this nominal of the particular application of it which we have now fice was the close of the splendour of the ædileship . to consider will be understood from the fact that the Augustus ...
... manner ; and and his munificent expenditure in this nominal of the particular application of it which we have now fice was the close of the splendour of the ædileship . to consider will be understood from the fact that the Augustus ...
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... manner : " In the van are usually pla- any flexible twig . ced the extraordinaries ( ¿ íλEKTOι , extraordinarii ) ; and after these the right wing of the allies , which is followed by the baggage of both these bodies . Next to these ...
... manner : " In the van are usually pla- any flexible twig . ced the extraordinaries ( ¿ íλEKTOι , extraordinarii ) ; and after these the right wing of the allies , which is followed by the baggage of both these bodies . Next to these ...
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