A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece: With a Map, and a Plan of Athens, المجلد 3

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Clarendon Press, 1828
 

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الصفحة 104 - The 2 u 2 ruin, which we had seen in the evening, we found to be the walls of the cell of a very large temple, standing many feet high and well-built, the stones all injured, and manifesting the labour of persons, who have endeavoured by boring to A get at the metal, with which they were cemented. From a • massive capital remaining it was collected that the edifice had been of the Doric order.
الصفحة 396 - It appears from the Greek historians that the Cyclades were first inhabited by the Phoenicians, Carians, and Leleges, whose piratical habits rendered them formidable to the cities on the continent, till they were conquered and finally extirpated by Minos.
الصفحة 387 - Nunc age, naturas apibus quas luppiter ipse 150 addidit expediam, pro qua mercede canoros Curetum sonitus crepitantiaque aera secutae Dictaeo caeli regem pavere sub antro.
الصفحة 374 - And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone : 8 And hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called, The Fair Havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.
الصفحة 66 - which still retains its ancient appellation, is said to have been built on the site of three towns, called Aroe, Anthea, and Messatis, which had been founded by the loniann when they were in possession of the country.
الصفحة 221 - Œnus and Gongylus, in a valley confined between two mountains named Evas and Olympus. It commanded the only road by which an army could enter Laconia from the north, and was therefore a position of great importance for the defence of the capital. Thus when Epaminondas made his attack upon Sparta, his first object, after forcing the passes which led from Arcadia into the enemy's counIry, was to march directly upon Sellasia with all his troops.
الصفحة 136 - The island of Sphacteria, so celebrated in Grecian history from the defeat and capture of a Lacedaemonian detachment in the seventh year of the Peloponnesian war, was also known by the name of Sphagia, which it still retains. Pliny says the Sphagite weiethree in number ; Xenophen likewise speaks ol some islands so called on the Laconian coast, meaning, donbtless, that of Messenia. Two of these must have been mere rocks.
الصفحة 60 - Hélice, by a terrible earthquake, the surviving inhabitants rebuilt it afterwards, about 40 stadia from the coast, and near the small river Buraicus.
الصفحة 270 - that the mountainous promontory of Methana consists chiefly of a volcanic rock of a dark colour. The outline is grand and picturesque, and the principal mountain, which was thrown up by the volcano, is of a conical form. Its apparent height is about equal to that of Vesuvius.
الصفحة 270 - Methone," according to the same learned antiquary, " was situated in the plain at the " foot of its acropolis, near which are a few remains " of two edifices, one of the Doric, the other of the " Ionic order, composed of white marble, and of " small proportions. The walls of the acropolis are " regularly constructed and well preserved, extend" ing round the edge of the rock, which in some " places rises about thirty feet above the plain m.

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