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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... also for its oysters , Ennius , Virgil . The in- habitants were called Abydeni , Ste- phanus , Pliny ; who worshipped a tone , faid to have dropt from heaven : a foft , effeminate people , given much to detraction ; hence the proverb ...
... also for its oysters , Ennius , Virgil . The in- habitants were called Abydeni , Ste- phanus , Pliny ; who worshipped a tone , faid to have dropt from heaven : a foft , effeminate people , given much to detraction ; hence the proverb ...
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... Also a maritime town of Macedonia , to the weft of mount Athos , a colony of An- drians , Thucydides , Ptolemy ; now Eriffo ; near which was shewnXerxes's ditch , of feven ftadia , in order to sepa- rate mount Athos from the continent ...
... Also a maritime town of Macedonia , to the weft of mount Athos , a colony of An- drians , Thucydides , Ptolemy ; now Eriffo ; near which was shewnXerxes's ditch , of feven ftadia , in order to sepa- rate mount Athos from the continent ...
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... Also a town of Lycaonia , Strabo ; on the bor- ders of Galatia and Pifidia , to the weft of Iconium . ACHARACA , a town of Lydia , situate between Tralles and Nyfa ; in which were the temple of Pluto , and the cave Charonium , where ...
... Also a town of Lycaonia , Strabo ; on the bor- ders of Galatia and Pifidia , to the weft of Iconium . ACHARACA , a town of Lydia , situate between Tralles and Nyfa ; in which were the temple of Pluto , and the cave Charonium , where ...
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... also by the Athenians , Pliny . ACHILLIS INSULA , a fmall island in the mouth of the Borysthenes , fa mous for the monument and a tem- ple of Achilles , Pliny . ACHINDANA , a river of Carmania , falling into the Perfian Gulf , Pto ...
... also by the Athenians , Pliny . ACHILLIS INSULA , a fmall island in the mouth of the Borysthenes , fa mous for the monument and a tem- ple of Achilles , Pliny . ACHINDANA , a river of Carmania , falling into the Perfian Gulf , Pto ...
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... Also the name of a hamlet at the mouth of the Acis . Acis , a fmall island in the Egean sea , and one of the Cyclades , Pliny . ACITHIS , or Acithius , Ptolemy , Atys , Pliny ; a river in the fouth of Sicily , running in the vale of ...
... Also the name of a hamlet at the mouth of the Acis . Acis , a fmall island in the Egean sea , and one of the Cyclades , Pliny . ACITHIS , or Acithius , Ptolemy , Atys , Pliny ; a river in the fouth of Sicily , running in the vale of ...
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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...