Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volumen 151851 |
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... according to the usual custom of emigrants , from a similar strongly - marked range in their old country , be naturally named Bindhyŭ ; it reappears in Greece as Pindu - s . In the Pindus mountain rises the river Peñeus ; in Bindhyu ...
... according to the usual custom of emigrants , from a similar strongly - marked range in their old country , be naturally named Bindhyŭ ; it reappears in Greece as Pindu - s . In the Pindus mountain rises the river Peñeus ; in Bindhyu ...
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... according to the last play lo at Mount of the trilogy of Eschylus , is Mount Caucasus . To this place then , a prime position of the Casyapates , Daityas , or Titans , does Io repair , in the form of a cow , an animal sacred in the ...
... according to the last play lo at Mount of the trilogy of Eschylus , is Mount Caucasus . To this place then , a prime position of the Casyapates , Daityas , or Titans , does Io repair , in the form of a cow , an animal sacred in the ...
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... according to the religious legend of ideas familiar to the old epic poets , both the distinguishing attributes Heracles . and the endless toil and endurances of Hêraklês , the most renowned and most ubiquitous of all the semi - divine ...
... according to the religious legend of ideas familiar to the old epic poets , both the distinguishing attributes Heracles . and the endless toil and endurances of Hêraklês , the most renowned and most ubiquitous of all the semi - divine ...
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... according to the warnings of Prometheus his father . After floating for nine days upon the water , he landed upon the summit of Mount Parnassus ; other legends say on Mount Othrys . Deucalion now prayed that Zeus would restore mankind ...
... according to the warnings of Prometheus his father . After floating for nine days upon the water , he landed upon the summit of Mount Parnassus ; other legends say on Mount Othrys . Deucalion now prayed that Zeus would restore mankind ...
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... according with the sounding lyre , The hallowed ground with equal cadence beat , And move in measure their alternate feet ; Together so Thessalia's princes sweep With well - timed oars the silver curling deep : While , raising high the ...
... according with the sounding lyre , The hallowed ground with equal cadence beat , And move in measure their alternate feet ; Together so Thessalia's princes sweep With well - timed oars the silver curling deep : While , raising high the ...
Términos y frases comunes
Alcibiades allies amongst ancient Apollo appears archon at Athens Argives Argos Aristagoras Aristīdēs army Artemis Athēnē Athenians Athens Attica battle beauty became Boeotia cause celebrated character chariot chief Cimon citizens command confederates Corinth Corinthians daughter death defeated deity Delphi divine domestic Egypt Encyclopædia enemy expedition favour festival fleet flourishes force goddess gods Grecian Greece Greeks Hellenic Heracles Herodotus heroes Hesiod Hippias Homer honour hundred Indian Ionians king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land latter legend Lycurgus Mardonius Messenians Miltiades Mount mountain myth naval Nicias noble occasion Olympic oracle orator party Pausanias Peisistratus Peloponnesian Peloponnesus Pericles Persian Phidias philosopher Plutarch poet political possession revolt sacred sailed Salamis Samos sent ships Sicily slain slaves Solon soon Spartans talents temple Thebans Thebes Themistocles Theseus Thessaly Thrace Trojan troops Troy victory whilst Xerxes Zeus δὲ καὶ
Pasajes populares
Página 155 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Página 477 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Página 445 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Página 375 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Página 116 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Página 113 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Página 148 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
Página 365 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Página 375 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Página 34 - The sire of gods and all the ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move 560 The high tribunal of immortal Jove.