Dictionary of Greek and Roman AntiquitiesLittle, Brown, and Company, 1859 - 1293 pagine |
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Pagina 22
... tribes instituted by Servius Tullius . It is , how- ever , one of the most difficult points in the Roman ... tribe and making him an aerarian ; but we nowhere find any definition of what an aerarian was . The Pseudo - Asconius ( ad Cic ...
... tribes instituted by Servius Tullius . It is , how- ever , one of the most difficult points in the Roman ... tribe and making him an aerarian ; but we nowhere find any definition of what an aerarian was . The Pseudo - Asconius ( ad Cic ...
Pagina 23
... tribes , or when he belonged to a city tribe ; so that moving him from his tribe was equivalent to excluding him from all tribes . Persons who were made infames likewise became aerarians , for they lost the jus honorum and the ...
... tribes , or when he belonged to a city tribe ; so that moving him from his tribe was equivalent to excluding him from all tribes . Persons who were made infames likewise became aerarians , for they lost the jus honorum and the ...
Pagina 27
... tribes , while the latter was a confederacy of towns . Hence the ancient and great towns of the Aetolians , throughout the period of the league , are of no importance and exercise no influence whatever . Even Thermon , although it was ...
... tribes , while the latter was a confederacy of towns . Hence the ancient and great towns of the Aetolians , throughout the period of the league , are of no importance and exercise no influence whatever . Even Thermon , although it was ...
Pagina 77
... tribes into smaller the names of such persons as he might meet ; the portions , and to secure more effectually the votes candidate was thus enabled to address them by by this division of labour . This distribution of their name , an ...
... tribes into smaller the names of such persons as he might meet ; the portions , and to secure more effectually the votes candidate was thus enabled to address them by by this division of labour . This distribution of their name , an ...
Pagina 79
... tribes , formed for the regulation of mutual intercourse , and the protection of a common temple or sanctuary , at which the representatives of the different members met , to transact business and celebrate religious rites and games ...
... tribes , formed for the regulation of mutual intercourse , and the protection of a common temple or sanctuary , at which the representatives of the different members met , to transact business and celebrate religious rites and games ...
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Pagina 91 - Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. The subterraneous pipes conveyed an inexhaustible supply of water ; and what had just before appeared a level plain, might be suddenly converted into a wide lake, covered with armed vessels, and replenished with the monsters of the deep.
Pagina 25 - A. to be any person who aids another in the conduct of a suit or action (Dig. 50, tit. 13), and in other parts of the digest it is used as equivalent to an orator (see also Tacit. Annal., x. 6), so that the word would seem gradually to have assumed its modern meaning. The office of the A.
Pagina 91 - The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble, and decorated with statues. The slopes of the vast concave which formed the inside were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats of marble, likewise covered with cushions, and capable of receiving with ease above fourscore thousand spectators.
Pagina 461 - the remains of a worship which preceded the rise of the Hellenic mythology and its attendant rites, grounded on a view of nature, less fanciful, more earnest, and better fitted to awaken both philosophical thought and religious feeling.
Pagina 91 - ... feet. The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble and decorated with statues. The slopes of the vast concave, which formed the inside, were filled and surrounded with sixty or eighty rows of seats of marble likewise, covered with cushions, and capable of receiving with...
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Pagina 414 - The raagister equitum had, like the dictator, to receive the imperium by a lex cnriata (Liv. ix. 38). The dictator could not be without a magister equitum, and, consequently, if the latter died during the six months of the dictatorship, another had to be nominated in his stead. The magister equitum was subject to the imperium of the dictator, but in the absence of his superior he became his representative, and exercised the same powers as the dictator. On one occasion, shortly before legal dictators...
Pagina 231 - Hence, as the masculine form was easily adopted to denote the period of the sun's course, so the feminine in like manner might well be employed to signify, first the moon's revolution, and then the moon herself. The tendency among the Romans to have the same word repeated, first as a male and then as a female deity, has been noticed by Niebuhr...
Pagina 355 - If a piece of land was torn away by a stream (avulsio) from one man's land and attached to another's land, it became the property of the latter when it was firmly attached to it This is a different case from that of ALLUVIO. But in all these cases the losing party was entitled to compensation, with some exceptions as to cases of mala fides. Confusio occurs in the case of rights also. If the right and the duty of an obligatio become united in one person, there is a confusio by which the obligatio...
Pagina 189 - It would appear from the description of the bath administered to Ulysses in the palace of Circe, that this vessel did not contain water itself, but was only used for the bather to sit in while the warm water was poured over him, which was heated in a large caldron or tripod, under which the fire was placed, and when sufficiently warmed, was taken out in other vessels and poured over the head and shoulders of the person who sat in the iurafuydus.