... pipe Tooth , s . a bone in the jaw ; taste ; prong Tooth , v . a . to ... Tor pitude , s . numbness ; sluggishness Tor'por , s . dulness , inability ... Tortile , Tortive , a . twisted , wreathed Tor'tion , s . torment ; pain Tor'tious ...
... Ruddle , s . red earth Rud'dleman , s . one who is employed in dig- ging ruddle , or red earth Ruddy , a ... Rumina'tion , s . a chewing the cud ; medi- tation , reflection Ru'minator , s . one that considers or thinks of a matter , or ...
... the goddess . Her altar consisted of the ashes of the victims which had been ... inheritance are to be explained under this title . The subject may be ... inheritance as well as citizenship and might even raise a doubt of her legitimacy ...
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities
... the code ; but the matter of the last three books of the code is hardly treated of in the Digest . See INSTITUTIONES . Codex Rescriptus . See PALIMPSEST . Codex Theodosiānus . In A.D. 429 , Theodosius II . , whose capital was ...
... imperium.1 it on a sudden , seized it by the throat , and immedi- ately killed it . Thus much for the ancient story . Modern experience , on the other hand , proves that , without having recourse to a cuirass of mud , the Ichneumon ...
... Waddle , v . n , to walk like a duck Waddling , par . Wad'dled , pre . Wade , v . n . to walk through water , & c ... mean , low , common , ordinary - s . the common or lower people Vulgar - ism , 8. meanness ; vulgarity Vulgarity , s .
A School-dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary
... BUTTMAN'S IRREGULAR GREEK VERBS ; WITH ALL THE TENSES - THEIR FORMATION , MEANING , AND USAGE , WITH AN INDEX . Translated , with Notes , by J. R. FISHLAKE , M.A. Second Edition . 8vo , 7s . 6d . " Buttman's Catalogue contains all those ...
The Treasury of Knowledge: And Library of Reference
... Sao 15 Worcester , [ 2 ] Worcestershire W. Sa. ןןן Workington , Cumberland W. Sa. 306 Wadebridge , Cornwall Wainfleet , Lincolnshire Wakefield , [ 1 ] Yorkshire Wallingford , [ 1 ] Berkshire Fr. 242 Worksop , Nottinghamshire W. 146 Sa ...
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 Table
... Athens . DIL , the divinities of the ancient inha- bitants of the earth were ... gods and men , the devout veneration of their votaries . This im mense ... 30,000 gods that in- habited the earth , and were guardians of men , all ...
A Classical Dictionary ; Containing a Full Account of All the Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors ; With Tables of Coins, Weights, and Measures, in Use Among the Greeks and Romans ...
... gods which were worshipped in different parts of the earth . Besides these ... 30,000 gods that inhabited the earth , and were guar- dians of men , all ... Athens . represented by the mythologists as a helpless DI , the divinities of the ...
Bibliotheca Classica: Or, a Classical Dictionary, Containing a Full Account of All the Proper Names Mentioned in Antient Authors. To which are Subjoined, Tables of Coins, Weights, and Measures, in Use Among the Greeks and Romans
... murderer became pregnant , and Laius ftill intent to ftop lipus to explain ... murderer of king Laius was banish with maternal tenderness . The accom - ed ... Delphi , and was there told not to murdered his father , but that he had com ...
... Spartan , who stabbed Epami- nondas , the Theban general , at the battle of ... T. Q. Flamininus , on account of the facilities , which its harbour presented for the ... lost Asia , and established himself in Macedonia after the death of ...
A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities: With Nearly 2000 Engravings on Wood from Ancient Originals Illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks and Romans
... Greek and Roman theatre ; which occupied a corre- sponding position , as regards the rest of the edifice , with the pit of our theatres , and consisted of a flat open space in the centre of the building at the bottom , circumscribed by ...
A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on Wood from Ancient Originals Illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks and Romans
... 2. Id . Merc . v . I. 5. Quaranta . Mus . Borb . tom . xi ... guardian- spirits of a household , as well as other sanctified or deified ... persona , be- cause it is only applied to those which possess unsightly features . ( Hor . Sat. i . 5 ...
A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Abridged from the Larger Dictionary
... theatre was built on a very title . In the later period of the republic and under the empire , the Romans seem to have used the title ( as also those of ethnarch and ... Greek drama , and the only place which produced great masterworks in ...
... dance having been called púλis by the Cre- tans . ( Müller , Dor . iii . 12. § 10. ) Of such dances the most celebrated was the Pyrrhic ( † Пußßíxn ) , of which the púλis was probably only another name : this Plato ( Leg . vii . p . 815 ) ...
A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors, and Intended to Elucidate All the Important Points Connected with the Geography, History, Biography, Mythology, and Fine Arts of the Greeks and Romans. Together with an Acount of Coins, Weights, and Measures, with Tabular Values of the Same
... names of the island of Rhodes . ( Plin . , 5 , 31. ) 64 66 66 OPICI , the ... early Portuguese navigators believed that they had found Ophir in the modern ... Test . , vol . 3 , p . 75. ) Tychsen also decides in favour of India , and ...
... ( star - maiden ) , was daughter of Astræus and Eos , or , according to another account , of Zeus and Themis , and as such was identified with Dike . ( See HOURS . ) She lived among men in the golden age , and in the brazen age was the ...
A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature & Art
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A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, Mythology, Religion, Literature and Art, from the German of Dr. Oskar Seyffert
... ( star - maiden ) , was daughter of Astræus and Eōs , or , according to another account , of Zeus and Themis , and as such was identified with Dike . ( See HOURS . ) She lived among men in the golden age , and in the brazen age was the ...
A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography: Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
... Persian monarch leave Ida " on his left band " ( 7 , 42 ) , that is , to the ... Sca- mander , the sepus , and the Granicus . Strabo con- cluded that all ... garb of fable around many notions based in reality on the nature of things . An ...
A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography: Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology ... ( hyacinth ) , on the leaves of which appeared the exclamation of woe AI , AI ... legends by the name of the Hyacinthides , which they derived from their fa- ther ...
New Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography
... Chiron ; and Hercules , eager in his pursuit , wounded Chiron , his old friend , with one of his poisoned arrows ; in consequence of which Chiron died . [ CHIRON . ] Pholus likewise was wounded by one of the arrows , which by ac- cident ...
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities
... literary prose fiction , however , is to be found in the short stories collected by Herodotus , most of which have their origin in the East , the home of story- telling . Such are the famous anecdotes of Candaules ( i . 8-12 ) , of ...
Bibliotheca Classica: Or a Classical Dictionary Containing a Copious Account of the Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors with the Value of Coins, Weights, and Measures
... capital of the kingdom of Judah , until it was entirely destroyed , and its inhabitants were carried into captivity by Nebuchadnez- JASON ( -ŏnis ) . ( 1 ) Son of Aeson , and the zar , king of Babylon , B.C. 588. In 536 the celebrated ...
A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Biography, Geography, and Mythology
Bibliotheca Classica, Or, A Dictionary of All the Principal Names and Terms Relating to the Geography, Topography, History, Literature, and Mythology of Antiquity and of the Ancients: With a Chronological Table
... sca . The modern Irak , distinguished , Taurus range , which are here disjointed , and according to D'Anville , by the surname of Aja- point in every direction , intersecting the country mi or the Persian Irak , corresponds to the with ...
A Summary of Geography and History, Both Ancient and Modern: Containing, an Account of the Political State, and Principal Revolutions of the Most Illustrious Nations in Ancient and Modern Times; ... Designed Chiefly to Connect the Study of Classical Learning with that of General Knowledge. By Alexander Adam, ...
... wars * , Ib . 12 . MANLIUS , the preferver of the Capitol , being fufpected ... home from the Forum . The younger Fabia , unacquainted with that cuftom ... father feeing * The Volfci are said , a . u : 292 , to have been almoft ...
A Summary of Geography and History: Both Ancient and Modern ... with an Abridgment of the Fabulous History Or Mythology of the Greeks. To which is Prefixed, an Historical Account of the Progress and Improvements of Astronomy and Geography ... to the Time of Sir Isaac Newton ... Designed Chiefly to Connect the Study of Classical Learning with that of General Knowledge
... returned home ; nor could they be induced again to concern themselves in the war . Their having however engaged fo far , gave occafion to all the wars which followed between the Perfians and Greeks ; and which finally terminated in the ...
A Classical Dictionary: Containing an Account of the Principal Proper Names Mentioned in Ancient Authors ...
... Ovid's Epis- visited Agrippa in his retirement of Planasia ; and tles , thinks it probable that " he had stumbled by some the object of his journey from Rome ... poet had a practice of break - indiscretion of the wife of Fabius . ( Tacit . , ...
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