 | Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792 - 242 sider
...The Syrians obferved it with all the violence of grief, and the greateft cruelty of felf-cafligation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in Saint CYRIL'S time; and when JULIAN the Apoftate made his entry at Ant inch, in the year 362, they were celebrating the feaft of ADONIS. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 sider
...violence o grief, and the greatest cruelty of self-castigation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in St. Cyril's time; and when Julian the apostate made his...differ greatly in their accounts of this divinity. Athenaeus says, that he was thi favourite of Bacchus. Plutarch maintains, thai he and Bacchus are the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 sider
...self-castigation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in St. Cyril's time; and when Julian the apostate made hi) entry at Antioch, in the year 362, they were celebrating...differ greatly in their accounts of this divinity. Athetuens says, that he was the favourite of Bacchus. Plutarch maintains, that he and Itacchus are... | |
 | 1813 - 442 sider
...The Syrians observed it with all the violence of grief, and the greatest cruelty of setfcastigation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in Saint Cyril's time...were celebrating the feast of Adonis. The ancients ditfer greatly in their accounts of this divinity. Athena-us says, he was the favourite of Bacchus.... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 396 sider
...The Syrians observed it with all the violence of grief and the greatest cruelty of self castigation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in Saint Cyril's time;...differ greatly in their accounts of this divinity. Athenaeus says, he was the favourite of Bacchus. Plutarch maintains that he and Bacchus are the same... | |
 | Theocritus - 1846 - 316 sider
...violence of grief, and the greatest cruelty of self-castigation. It was celebrated at Alexandria in St. Cyril's time ; and when Julian the Apostate made his...differ greatly in their accounts of this divinity. Athenaeus says, he was the favourite of Bacchus. Plutarch maintains that he and Bacchus are the same... | |
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It was celebrated at Alexandria in St. Cyril's time ; and when Julian the Apostate made his entry at Antioch, in the year 362, they were celebrating the feast of Adonis. The ancients differ greatly in their accounts of this divinity. 