A Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesWilliam Smith, Charles Anthon Harper & brothers, 1843 - 1116 pages |
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Page 38
... sometimes called decumanus ; it was also sometimes called ager vectigalis . The tithes were generally farmed by the publicani , who paid their rent mostly in money , but sometimes in grain . The letting was managed by the censors , and ...
... sometimes called decumanus ; it was also sometimes called ager vectigalis . The tithes were generally farmed by the publicani , who paid their rent mostly in money , but sometimes in grain . The letting was managed by the censors , and ...
Page 41
... sometimes invested with unlimited power in the Greek states . His power , according to Aris- totle , partook in some degree of the nature both of kingly and tyrannical authority , since he was ap- pointed legally , and did not usurp the ...
... sometimes invested with unlimited power in the Greek states . His power , according to Aris- totle , partook in some degree of the nature both of kingly and tyrannical authority , since he was ap- pointed legally , and did not usurp the ...
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... sometimes by the number of amphoræ it yielded , and sometimes by the culeus of twenty amphora . AMPHO TIDES . ( Vid . PUGILATUS . ) AMPLIA'TIO . ( Vid . JUDICIUM . ) AMPULLA ( λήκυθος , βομβύλιος ) , a bottle . The Romans took a bottle ...
... sometimes by the number of amphoræ it yielded , and sometimes by the culeus of twenty amphora . AMPHO TIDES . ( Vid . PUGILATUS . ) AMPLIA'TIO . ( Vid . JUDICIUM . ) AMPULLA ( λήκυθος , βομβύλιος ) , a bottle . The Romans took a bottle ...
Page 87
... sometimes adorned with gold ( whence aureus arcus ) . The golden ring , or han- dle , has been already mentioned . Apollo is called by Homer " the god of the silver bow " ( apyvporóžos ) . The bowstring was twisted , and was made either ...
... sometimes adorned with gold ( whence aureus arcus ) . The golden ring , or han- dle , has been already mentioned . Apollo is called by Homer " the god of the silver bow " ( apyvporóžos ) . The bowstring was twisted , and was made either ...
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... sometimes a complete ring , it was much more fre- " Imperator te argenteis armillis donat . " quently made without having its ends joined ; it was then curved , so as to require , when put on , to be slightly expanded by having its ends ...
... sometimes a complete ring , it was much more fre- " Imperator te argenteis armillis donat . " quently made without having its ends joined ; it was then curved , so as to require , when put on , to be slightly expanded by having its ends ...
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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.