A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pagine |
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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
William Smith Charles Anthon. 14 AGORANOMI . AGROTERAS THUSIA . The principal duty of the Agoranomi was , as their name imports , to inspect the market , and to see that all the laws respecting its regulation were properly observed ...
William Smith Charles Anthon. 14 AGORANOMI . AGROTERAS THUSIA . The principal duty of the Agoranomi was , as their name imports , to inspect the market , and to see that all the laws respecting its regulation were properly observed ...
Pagina 16
... principal terms occurring in the Roman writers in relation to the canvassing for the public offices : -A can- didate was called petitor ; and his opponent with reference to him competitor . A candidate ( candidatus ) was so called from ...
... principal terms occurring in the Roman writers in relation to the canvassing for the public offices : -A can- didate was called petitor ; and his opponent with reference to him competitor . A candidate ( candidatus ) was so called from ...
Pagina 19
... principal part of the solemnity , from which its name was derived . AMPHITHEA'TRUM , an amphitheatre , was a place for the exhibition of public shows of combatants and wild beasts , entirely sur- rounded by seats for the spectators ...
... principal part of the solemnity , from which its name was derived . AMPHITHEA'TRUM , an amphitheatre , was a place for the exhibition of public shows of combatants and wild beasts , entirely sur- rounded by seats for the spectators ...
Pagina 20
... principal entrances leading into the arena ; two at the ends of each axis or diameter of it , to which as many passages led directly from the exterior of the building ; besides secondary ones , inter- vening between them , and ...
... principal entrances leading into the arena ; two at the ends of each axis or diameter of it , to which as many passages led directly from the exterior of the building ; besides secondary ones , inter- vening between them , and ...
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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