A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pagine |
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... festival celebrated every three years at Actium in Epirus , with wrest- ling , horse - racing , and sea - fights , in honour of Apollo . There was a celebrated temple of Apollo at Actium . After the defeat of Antony off Actium ...
... festival celebrated every three years at Actium in Epirus , with wrest- ling , horse - racing , and sea - fights , in honour of Apollo . There was a celebrated temple of Apollo at Actium . After the defeat of Antony off Actium ...
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... festivals . The general superinten- dence of police comprehended the duty of preserving order , regard to decency , and the inspection of the baths and houses of enter- tainment . The aediles had various officers under them , as ...
... festivals . The general superinten- dence of police comprehended the duty of preserving order , regard to decency , and the inspection of the baths and houses of enter- tainment . The aediles had various officers under them , as ...
Pagina 13
... festivals , or , at least , the morning of the 10th of December , was considered a dies nefastus . The etymo- logy of this name was differently explained by the ancients ; some derived it from Agonius , a surname of Janus ; some from ...
... festivals , or , at least , the morning of the 10th of December , was considered a dies nefastus . The etymo- logy of this name was differently explained by the ancients ; some derived it from Agonius , a surname of Janus ; some from ...
Pagina 14
... festival which was celebrated at Orchomenus , in Boeotia , in honour of Bacchus , surnamed Agrionius . A human being used originally to be sacrificed at this festival , but this sacrifice seems to have been avoided in later times . One ...
... festival which was celebrated at Orchomenus , in Boeotia , in honour of Bacchus , surnamed Agrionius . A human being used originally to be sacrificed at this festival , but this sacrifice seems to have been avoided in later times . One ...
Pagina 16
... festival of Artemis ( Diana ) Amarynthia , or Amarysia , celebrated as it seems , originally at Amarynthus in Eu- boea , with extraordinary splendour , but also solemnized in several places in Attica , such as Athmone . AMBARVA ́LIA ...
... festival of Artemis ( Diana ) Amarynthia , or Amarysia , celebrated as it seems , originally at Amarynthus in Eu- boea , with extraordinary splendour , but also solemnized in several places in Attica , such as Athmone . AMBARVA ́LIA ...
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Pagina 40 - The next and most common form is that which has the two-faced head of Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the other (whence the expression used by Roman boys in tossing up, Capita...
Pagina 18 - 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 any thing against what was in his temple at Delphi, they would take vengeance on him with hand and foot, and voice, and all their might.
Pagina 134 - 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 110 - Persia, stamped on one side with the figure of an archer crowned and kneeling upon one knee, and on the other with a sort of quadrata incusa or deep cleft.
Pagina 304 - SUOVETAURI'LIA. [SACRIFICIUM, p. 277; LUSTRATIO, p. 206; and wood-cut on p. 296.] SU'PPARUM. [NAVis, p. 224.] SUPPER. [COENA; DEIPNON.] SUPPUCA'TIO, a solemn thanksgiving or supplication to the gods, decreed by the senate, when all the temples were opened, and the statues of the gods frequently placed in public upon couches (pulvinaria), to which the people offered up their thanksgivings and prayers.
Pagina 304 - Sycophantes in the time of Aristophanes and Demosthenes designated a person of a peculiar class, not capable of being described by any single word in our language, but well understood and appreciated by an Athenian. He had not much in common with our sycophant, but was a happy compound of the common barretor, informer, pettifogger, busybody, rogue, liar, and slanderer.
Pagina 348 - vallus,' ' a stake ; ' and properly means the palisade which ran along the outer edge of the ' agger,' or ' mound ; ' but it frequently includes the ' agger