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Apennine, the greatest mountain in Italy

Aracynthus, a town on the confines of Attica and Boeotia

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Araxes, a river in Armenia, that bore down a bridge Alexander

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Ardea, consternation of the inhabitants at conflagration of their

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bird of the same name rises from the burnt city Arethusa, a fountain, or Fountain-Nymph in Sicily

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Ascanius: his father Æneas's great love to him...

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Sage, Hesiod, who was born at Ascræa, a village of Boeotia

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Atys ruled in Alba

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Aurunci, or Ausones, the most ancient inhabitants of Italy

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Baccar, or Ladies-glove, thought to have virtue against fascination

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Bacchus, the God of Wine, invoked

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Banquet offered by Latinus to Æneas and the Trojans ...

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Battle, a bloody one between Eneas and the Latins

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a method of restoring their kind, if their breed were lost

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the history of the invention of restoring them

Bellua Lernæ, a snake in the Lake Lerna, destroyed by Hercules

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Benacus, a lake in the territory of Verona

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Berecynthia, the Mother of the Gods, her petition to Jupiter

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Bianor, son of Tiber and the nymph Manto, founded Mantua v. 3, B.

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Bisaltæ, a people of Macedon

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Bistonian King, Tereus, changed into a hoopoo ...

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Briareus, a giant feigned to have had a hundred hands...

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Britomartis, the ill-fated, invoked by her mother, Carme, as an

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Cæsar Augustus: the Romans envied for their happiness in having him as their prince

Virgil's prayer for the continuance of his life

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Cæsar Julius. Prodigies attending his death. The Sun sympathises with Rome by hiding his bright head; the Earth also yawns, and rivers stop their courses, &c.

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Cadmus, the two sons of, engaged in mortal strife with each other

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Cassandra, Priam's daughter, foretells the ruin of the Trojans

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Caucasus, a famous range of mountains, running from the Black Sea

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Celeres (body-guard)

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Centaurs, a people in Thessaly, who first broke horses

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Charybdis, a frightful whirlpool in the straits of Sicily..

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Chimæra, a monster that vomited flames ...

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Codrus, king of Athens, who died for his country

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Colchian Mother, the, meditating her children's death
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Contentment, a remarkable example of, in an old Corycian
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Corybantes, the priests of Cybele, all Eunuchs

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Country life, the happiness of it most beautifully described

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Creation, description of, according to the Epicurean system

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