A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All the Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors, with the Value of Coins, Weights, and Measures Among the Greeks and Romans, and a Chronological TableT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 - 848 sider |
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Side 28 - Atlantides, and supposes that they were the same number. They were appointed to guard the golden apples which Juno gave to Jupiter on the day of their nuptials ; and the place of their residence, placed beyond the ocean by Hesiod, is more universally believed to be near mount Atlas in Africa, according to Apollodorus.
Side 5 - ... to symbolize his opening and ruling the year : sometimes he bore the number 300 in one hand, and 65 in the other, the number of its days. At other times he was represented with four heads, and placed in a temple...
Side 1 - This new enemy was soon despatched, and Juno, unable to succeed in her attempts to lessen the fame of Hercules, placed the crab among the constellations, where it is now called the Cancer. The conqueror dipped his arrows in the- gall of the hydra.
Side 13 - Oceanus was the father of all the gods, and on that account he received frequent visits from the rest of the deities.
Side 1 - BC, after he had drained the waters of the Euphrates into a new channel, and marched his troops by night into the town, through the dried bed ; and it is...
Side 14 - AD 439; and it was for more than a century the scat of the Vandal empire in Africa, and fell into the hands of the Saracens in the 7th century. The Carthaginians were governed as a republic, and had two persons yearly chosen among them with regal authority. They were very...
Side 21 - I palace, when his power was extended over all the earth. He lived nine years after his abdication in the greatest security and enjoyment at Salona, and died in the 68th year of his age.
Side 6 - The ancients supposed that it> touched the heavens with its top ; and from that circumstance they have placed the residence of the gods there, and have made it the court of Jupiter.