A Dictionary of Ancient Geography: Explaining the Local Appellations in Sacred, Grecian, and Roman History; Exhibiting the Extent of Kingdoms, and Situations of Cities, &c. And Illustrating the Allusions and Epithets in the Greek and Roman Poets. The Whole Established by Proper Authorities, and Designed for the Use of SchoolsG. Robinson, 1773 - 628 Seiten |
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... Gulf , next Daplinine . ACANTHOS , a town of Egypt , near Memphis , Pliny ; now Bijalta . Also a maritime town of Macedonia , to the weft of mount Athos , a colony of An- drians , Thucydides , Ptolemy ; now Eriffo ; near which was ...
... Gulf , next Daplinine . ACANTHOS , a town of Egypt , near Memphis , Pliny ; now Bijalta . Also a maritime town of Macedonia , to the weft of mount Athos , a colony of An- drians , Thucydides , Ptolemy ; now Eriffo ; near which was ...
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... gulf or fink of elms . ACHERON , a river of Thefprotia , in Epirus , which , after forming the lake Archerufia , at no great dif- tance from , falls into the fea , near the promontory of Chimerium to the weft of the Sinus Ambracius , in ...
... gulf or fink of elms . ACHERON , a river of Thefprotia , in Epirus , which , after forming the lake Archerufia , at no great dif- tance from , falls into the fea , near the promontory of Chimerium to the weft of the Sinus Ambracius , in ...
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... Gulf , from which , according to Pliny , they fet fail for India . Now Ziden . ACILIA AUGUSTA , a town of Bava- ria , now Azelburg , as appears from an ancient infcription . ACILISENE , a district of Armenia the Greater , fituate ...
... Gulf , from which , according to Pliny , they fet fail for India . Now Ziden . ACILIA AUGUSTA , a town of Bava- ria , now Azelburg , as appears from an ancient infcription . ACILISENE , a district of Armenia the Greater , fituate ...
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... gulf , which made it inacceffible but on the fide next the town . It was famous for the tyrant Phalaris and his brazen bull . They were a people luxurious in their tables , and magnificent in their dwellings , of whom Empedocles , in ...
... gulf , which made it inacceffible but on the fide next the town . It was famous for the tyrant Phalaris and his brazen bull . They were a people luxurious in their tables , and magnificent in their dwellings , of whom Empedocles , in ...
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... Gulf , Ptolemy . ADACHA , a town of the Palmyrene in Syria , Ptolemy . ADADA , Ptolemy , or Adadata , Stra bo ; a town of Pifidia . Another of the Palmyrene in Syria , Ptolemy . ADADREMMON , a town near Jezreel , a valley of Sainarja ...
... Gulf , Ptolemy . ADACHA , a town of the Palmyrene in Syria , Ptolemy . ADADA , Ptolemy , or Adadata , Stra bo ; a town of Pifidia . Another of the Palmyrene in Syria , Ptolemy . ADADREMMON , a town near Jezreel , a valley of Sainarja ...
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Seite 10 - He used to thank the gods for three things ; that he was born a reasonable creature, and not a beast ; a man, and not a woman ; a Greek, and not a Barbarian.
Seite 3 - Quiritum only, or private right ; as right of liberty, of gentility, or dignity of family, facrifice, marriage, &c. For it was long a rule, never to grant the liberty of the city in full to colonies ; nor is there any inftance to the contrary, till after the Social war, in the year of the city fix hundred and fixty-two.
Seite 9 - Liguria, at the confluence of the Stura and Tanarus. Suetonius calls it a municipium, and the people Pollentina Plebs. It was famous for its abundance of black fleeces; but was afterwards, under Arcadius and Honorius, ftained with a defeat rather of the Romans under Stilico than of the Goths under Alaricus.
Seite 7 - ... Dictionaries are commodious, they are likewise fallacious: he whose works exhibit an apparent connexion and regular subordination cannot easily conceal his ignorance, or favour his idleness; the completeness of one part will show the deficiency of another: but the writer of a Dictionary may silently omit what he does not know; and his ignorance, if it happens to be discovered, slips away from censure under the name of forgetfulness.
Seite 7 - I fhall not often be found to have ufed. I have not only digefted former Dictionaries into my alphabet, but have confulted the ancient Geographers, without neglecting other authors. I have in fome degree enlightened ancient by modern Geography, having given the fituation of places from later obfervation. Names are often changing, but place is always the fame, and to know it exactly is always of importance...