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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... hundred and eigh- ty - four , the people of Gela built Acragas , one hundred and eight years after building their own city . It took its name from the river run- ning by it . And , being but two miles from , enjoyed all the conve ...
... hundred and eigh- ty - four , the people of Gela built Acragas , one hundred and eight years after building their own city . It took its name from the river run- ning by it . And , being but two miles from , enjoyed all the conve ...
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... hundred miles , abounding in iron , as Elba ftill does . Stephanus calls it Aetha- le . The port of Aethalia was called Argous , Diod . Sicul . AETHALIA , an appellation of the island Lemnos , Polybius . AETHALOEIS TORRENS , a brook in ...
... hundred miles , abounding in iron , as Elba ftill does . Stephanus calls it Aetha- le . The port of Aethalia was called Argous , Diod . Sicul . AETHALIA , an appellation of the island Lemnos , Polybius . AETHALOEIS TORRENS , a brook in ...
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... hundred miles in com- pals at the foot ; from which to the top , is a distance of between twenty and thirty miles , so that it must be upwards of eight miles in height . The upper parts of the mountain , according to Strabo , are naked ...
... hundred miles in com- pals at the foot ; from which to the top , is a distance of between twenty and thirty miles , so that it must be upwards of eight miles in height . The upper parts of the mountain , according to Strabo , are naked ...
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... hundred and twenty - eight before Christ , fifty years after a preceding eruption ; and that in all there happened three eruptions , from the time Sicily came to be inhabited by the Greeks . The profpect from mount Aetna is extenfive ...
... hundred and twenty - eight before Christ , fifty years after a preceding eruption ; and that in all there happened three eruptions , from the time Sicily came to be inhabited by the Greeks . The profpect from mount Aetna is extenfive ...
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... hundred and three years before Chrift ; fituate on an eminence , about a mile from the fea , now in ruins . It enjoyed im- munity from taxes under the Ro- mans , Diodorus , Cicero . The in- habitants were called Halefni , Ci- cero ...
... hundred and three years before Chrift ; fituate on an eminence , about a mile from the fea , now in ruins . It enjoyed im- munity from taxes under the Ro- mans , Diodorus , Cicero . The in- habitants were called Halefni , Ci- cero ...
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Afia alſo Ammian ancient name Antonine Arabia Arrian arum Baetica becauſe Belgica Boeotia Bruttii built Caefar called alfo Caria Cicero citadel Cluverius coaft cognominal Coin colony Crete diftant diftrict Diodorus Siculus Dionyfius eaſt Egypt epithet Euxine faid fame famous fays feems feparated fituate fmall fo called fome foot of mount fouth fprings ftadia ftood fuppofed furnamed Gallia Celtica gentilitious name Greeks Gulf Herodotus Hither Spain Homer Horace Infcription inland town island Italicus Itinerary Jofephus Joshua Lacus laft lake Latium lemy Livy Long lying Macedonia Mauretania Mela miles Mofes mountain mouth Notitia Numidia oppofite orum Ovid Paufanias Peutinger phanus Phrygia Pliny Plutarch Polybius port PORTUS promontory Ptole Ptolemy rifing river Romans Rome running Sarmatia Scylax Sicily Sinus ſmall Stephanus Stra Strabo Syria Tacitus tain temple territory Theffaly ther Thrace Thucydides tribe village Virgil weft weft fide whofe
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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...