A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pagine |
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... ( άлоλɛуμоí ) were the parts of the victim which were offered to the gods A Abolla , Military Cloak . ABROGATIO . [ LEX . ] ABSOLUTIO . [ JUDEX . ] ACROSTOLIUM . ACTIO . 3 Acinaces , Persian Sword . SCHOOL-DICTIONARY ...
... ( άлоλɛуμоí ) were the parts of the victim which were offered to the gods A Abolla , Military Cloak . ABROGATIO . [ LEX . ] ABSOLUTIO . [ JUDEX . ] ACROSTOLIUM . ACTIO . 3 Acinaces , Persian Sword . SCHOOL-DICTIONARY ...
Pagina 6
... offered with the hands folded together . The adoration paid to the Roman emperors was borrowed from the Eastern mode of adoration , and consisted in prostration on the ground , and kissing the feet and knees of the em- peror . The ...
... offered with the hands folded together . The adoration paid to the Roman emperors was borrowed from the Eastern mode of adoration , and consisted in prostration on the ground , and kissing the feet and knees of the em- peror . The ...
Pagina 13
... to the victors . Origi nally , the person who instituted the contest , and offered the prize , was the Agonothetes , and this continued to be the practice in those 14 AGORANOMI . AGROTERAS THUSIA . The principal duty of.
... to the victors . Origi nally , the person who instituted the contest , and offered the prize , was the Agonothetes , and this continued to be the practice in those 14 AGORANOMI . AGROTERAS THUSIA . The principal duty of.
Pagina 14
... offered in the time of Xeno- phon . Its origin is thus related : -When the Persians invaded Attica , the Athenians made a vow to sacrifice to Artemis ( Diana ) Agrotera as many goats as there should be enemies slain at Marathon . But ...
... offered in the time of Xeno- phon . Its origin is thus related : -When the Persians invaded Attica , the Athenians made a vow to sacrifice to Artemis ( Diana ) Agrotera as many goats as there should be enemies slain at Marathon . But ...
Pagina 27
... . APHRACTUS ( άóрактоs vаus ) , called ( ἄφρακτος also navis aperta , a ship which had no deck , but was merely covered with planks in the front and hinder part , as is represented in ARATRUM . 31 tended for the offering of fruits or.
... . APHRACTUS ( άóрактоs vаus ) , called ( ἄφρακτος also navis aperta , a ship which had no deck , but was merely covered with planks in the front and hinder part , as is represented in ARATRUM . 31 tended for the offering of fruits or.
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Pagina 61 - XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV XIII XII XI X IX VIII VII VI v IV III p cT W S.
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