A School Dictionary of Greek & Roman AntiquitiesHarper & bros., 1851 - 373 pagine |
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Pagina 2
... seems Accubatio , Act of Reclining . intended to represent a scene of matrimonial felicity . The husband and wife recline on a sofa ; their two sons are in front of them ; and several females and a boy are perform- ing a piece of music ...
... seems Accubatio , Act of Reclining . intended to represent a scene of matrimonial felicity . The husband and wife recline on a sofa ; their two sons are in front of them ; and several females and a boy are perform- ing a piece of music ...
Pagina 3
... seems to have been chosen by the emperor to com- pile the account . The Acta Diurna , which were also called Acta populi , Acta publica , Acta urbana , and by the simple name of Acta , were frequently consulted and appealed to by later ...
... seems to have been chosen by the emperor to com- pile the account . The Acta Diurna , which were also called Acta populi , Acta publica , Acta urbana , and by the simple name of Acta , were frequently consulted and appealed to by later ...
Pagina 7
... seems to have con- tained special penal provisions against adul- tery ; and it is also not improbable , that by the old law or custom , if the adulterer was caught in the fact , he was at the mercy of the injured husband , and that the ...
... seems to have con- tained special penal provisions against adul- tery ; and it is also not improbable , that by the old law or custom , if the adulterer was caught in the fact , he was at the mercy of the injured husband , and that the ...
Pagina 8
... seems that after the appointment of the AEDILES . cised by the plebeian aediles were exercised , with some few ... seem to have been exercised by them jointly . In the superintendence of the public festi vals or solemnities , there was a ...
... seems that after the appointment of the AEDILES . cised by the plebeian aediles were exercised , with some few ... seem to have been exercised by them jointly . In the superintendence of the public festi vals or solemnities , there was a ...
Pagina 9
... seems that the age fixed for the aedileship was thirty - seven . had already been consul before he accepted the ... seem , however , as to their powers and duties , to have resembled the aediles of Rome . They were chosen annually . The ...
... seems that the age fixed for the aedileship was thirty - seven . had already been consul before he accepted the ... seem , however , as to their powers and duties , to have resembled the aediles of Rome . They were chosen annually . The ...
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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