A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger DictionaryHarper & brothers, 1854 - 373 pagine |
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... ancient grammarian , also attri- butes the same custom to the ancient Ro- mans . Even in the time of the early Ro- man emperors , children in families of the highest rank used to sit together , while their fathers and elders reclined on ...
... ancient grammarian , also attri- butes the same custom to the ancient Ro- mans . Even in the time of the early Ro- man emperors , children in families of the highest rank used to sit together , while their fathers and elders reclined on ...
Pagina 8
... ancient feasts and 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 ...
... ancient feasts and 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 ...
Pagina 9
... of high rank , who had the chief superintendence of tem- ples , their treasures , and the sacred rites ob served in them . AEGIS ( Alyic ) signifies , literally , a goat- skin . 10 AERA . According to ancient mythology , the aegis.
... of high rank , who had the chief superintendence of tem- ples , their treasures , and the sacred rites ob served in them . AEGIS ( Alyic ) signifies , literally , a goat- skin . 10 AERA . According to ancient mythology , the aegis.
Pagina 11
... ancients ; money , vases , and uten- 2000 asses for each horse , was charged upon sils of all sorts , being made of it . All the the rich widows and orphans , on the princi- most ancient coins in Rome and the old Ital - ple that , in a ...
... ancients ; money , vases , and uten- 2000 asses for each horse , was charged upon sils of all sorts , being made of it . All the the rich widows and orphans , on the princi- most ancient coins in Rome and the old Ital - ple that , in a ...
Pagina 19
... ancient amphitheatres was not a circle , but invariably an ellipse . Gladiatorial shows and combats of wild beasts ( venationes ) were first exhibited in the forum and the circus ; and it appears that the ancient custom was still ...
... ancient amphitheatres was not a circle , but invariably an ellipse . Gladiatorial shows and combats of wild beasts ( venationes ) were first exhibited in the forum and the circus ; and it appears that the ancient custom was still ...
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Pagina 8 - The curule aediles only had the jus edicendi, or the right of promulgating edicta ; but the rules comprised in their edicta served for the guidance of all the aediles. The edicta of the curule aediles were founded on their authority as superintendents of the markets, and of buying and selling in general. Accordingly, their edicts had mainly, or perhaps solely, reference to the rules as to buying and selling, and contracts for bargain and sale. The persons both of the plebeian and curule aediles were...
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 86 - ... he paid the costs and damages of a suit which the patron lost, and of any penalty in which he was condemned ; he bore a part of the patron's expenses incurred by his discharging public duties, or filling the honourable places in the state.
Pagina 313 - Kipxic, the comb, the teeth of which were inserted between the threads of the warp, and thus made by a forcible impulse to drive the threads of the woof close together .... Among us the office of the comb is executed with greater ease and effect by the reed, lay, or batten.
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 268 - ... honour of the Pythian god, with the accompaniment of the cithara. Some of the poets, however, and mythographers represent even the gods and the early heroes as engaged in gymnastic and equestrian contests at the Pythian games. But such statements, numerous as they are, can prove nothing : they are anachronisms, in which late writers were fond of indulging.
Pagina 304 - Hence the term avKofyavrelv, which originally signified to lay an information against another for exporting figs, came to be applied to all illnatured, malicious, groundless, and vexatious accusations. 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...
Pagina 164 - Polyb. vi. 35., which was the usual punishment of theft, desertion, perjury, &c. When a soldier was to suffer this punishment, the tribune first struck him gently with a staff', on which signal, all the soldiers of the legion fell upon him with sticks and stones, and generally killed him on the spot. If he made his escape, for he might fly, he could not however return to his native country, because no one, not even his relations, durst admit him into their houses, Polyb.
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.