A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pagine |
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Pagina 17
... former being applied to the putting on of the outer garment , the pallium , laena , or toga ( iuúriov , pũpoç ) ; the latter , to the putting on of the inner garment , the tunic ( xiTúv ) . In consequence of this distinction , the ...
... former being applied to the putting on of the outer garment , the pallium , laena , or toga ( iuúriov , pũpoç ) ; the latter , to the putting on of the inner garment , the tunic ( xiTúv ) . In consequence of this distinction , the ...
Pagina 18
... former were elected apparently for each session , and the latter by lot probably for a longer period . Respecting the relative duties of the Pylagorae and Hie- name of the latter implies that they had a more immediate connexion with the ...
... former were elected apparently for each session , and the latter by lot probably for a longer period . Respecting the relative duties of the Pylagorae and Hie- name of the latter implies that they had a more immediate connexion with the ...
Pagina 29
... former sovereign . Such an apotheo- sis of Ptolemy , king of Egypt , is described by Theocritus in his 17th Idyl . The term apotheosis , among the Romans , properly signified the elevation of a deceased emperor to divine honours . This ...
... former sovereign . Such an apotheo- sis of Ptolemy , king of Egypt , is described by Theocritus in his 17th Idyl . The term apotheosis , among the Romans , properly signified the elevation of a deceased emperor to divine honours . This ...
Pagina 30
... former wood - cut are Arae , Altars . square , and those in the latter round , which is the less common form . At the top of three of these altars we see the hole intended to receive the fire ( coxa- pís , έoxúpa ) : the fourth was ...
... former wood - cut are Arae , Altars . square , and those in the latter round , which is the less common form . At the top of three of these altars we see the hole intended to receive the fire ( coxa- pís , έoxúpa ) : the fourth was ...
Pagina 32
... former di- rection . The field which underwent this pro- cess was called ager iteratus . After the second Athens began with monarchy , and after ARCHON ( apxwv ) . The government of ploughing the sower cast his seed . Also the ing ...
... former di- rection . The field which underwent this pro- cess was called ager iteratus . After the second Athens began with monarchy , and after ARCHON ( apxwv ) . The government of ploughing the sower cast his seed . Also the ing ...
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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