Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, المجلد 1William Smith Walton and Maberly, 1856 - 2491 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 87
... Italy . Their circuit is about three miles , and they enclose three separate heights or summits of the hill , each of which appears to have had its particular defences as an arx or citadel , besides the external walls which surrounded ...
... Italy . Their circuit is about three miles , and they enclose three separate heights or summits of the hill , each of which appears to have had its particular defences as an arx or citadel , besides the external walls which surrounded ...
الصفحة 107
... Italy and Gaul , was the first to give an accurate description of them . Still his geographical knowledge of their course and extent was very imperfect : he justly describes them as extending from the neighbourhood of Massilia to the ...
... Italy and Gaul , was the first to give an accurate description of them . Still his geographical knowledge of their course and extent was very imperfect : he justly describes them as extending from the neighbourhood of Massilia to the ...
الصفحة 110
... Italy to Transalpine Gaul : it is evidently that followed by Caesar when he hastened to oppose the Helvetii , " qua proximum iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes erat " ( B. G. i . 10 ) , and is probably the same already mentioned as ...
... Italy to Transalpine Gaul : it is evidently that followed by Caesar when he hastened to oppose the Helvetii , " qua proximum iter in ulteriorem Galliam per Alpes erat " ( B. G. i . 10 ) , and is probably the same already mentioned as ...
الصفحة 133
... Italy . ( Procop . B. G. ii . 11 , 13 , iii . 30 , iv . 23. ) It afterwards became one of the chief cities of the Exarchate of Ravenna , and continued throughout the Middle Ages , as it does at the present day , to be one of the most ...
... Italy . ( Procop . B. G. ii . 11 , 13 , iii . 30 , iv . 23. ) It afterwards became one of the chief cities of the Exarchate of Ravenna , and continued throughout the Middle Ages , as it does at the present day , to be one of the most ...
الصفحة 154
... Italy , through Samnium , Lucania , and Bruttium , until they ended at the promontory of Leucopetra , on the Sicilian Sea . Polybius adds , that throughout their course from the plains of the Padus to their southern ex- tremity they ...
... Italy , through Samnium , Lucania , and Bruttium , until they ended at the promontory of Leucopetra , on the Sicilian Sea . Polybius adds , that throughout their course from the plains of the Padus to their southern ex- tremity they ...
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الصفحة 56 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
الصفحة 237 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 250 - Parthenon, ... no two are parallel. This asymmetria is productive of very great beauty; for it not only obviates the dry uniformity of too many parallel lines, but also produces exquisite varieties of light and shade.
الصفحة 296 - Santo end a good watering-place for shipping; the water (except in very dry weather) runs out in a good stream. The distance across is 2500 yards, which agrees very well with the breadth of twelve stadia assigned by Herodotus. The width of the canal appears to have been about 18 or 20 feet; the level of the earth nowhere exceeds 15 feet above the sea; the soil is a light clay.
الصفحة 96 - Strabo, the position of which, as already described, is exactly confirmed by the Stadiasmus, as well as by Ptolemy. There was a fourth pass, as Major Rennell has justly observed, which crossing Mount Amanus from the eastward, descended upon the centre of the head of the gulf, near Issus. By this pass it was that Dareius marched from Sochus, and took up his position on the banks of the Pinarus ; by which movement Alexander, who had just before marched from Mallus to Myriandrus, through the two maritime...
الصفحة 261 - This statue was made of olive-wood, and was said to have fallen down from heaven. Here was the sacred olive-tree, which Athena called forth from the earth in her contest with Poseidon for the possession of Attica; here also was the well of salt water which Poseidon produced by the stroke of his trident, the impression of which was seen upon the rock ; and here, lastly, was the tomb of Oecrops as well as that of Ercchtbeus. . . . The form of the Erechtheium differs from every other known example of...
الصفحة 259 - On both sides, and towards the door, is a kind of gallery, made with two ranks of pillars, twenty-two below, and twentythree above. The odd pillar is over the arch of the entrance, which was left for the passage.
الصفحة 352 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
الصفحة 272 - Vestiges of brazen and goldencoloured arms, of a blue sky, and of blue, green, and red drapery, are still very apparent.
الصفحة 124 - By its harbour of Seleucia it was in communication with all the trade of the Mediterranean ; and, through the open country behind the Lebanon, it was conveniently approached by the caravans from Mesopotamia and Arabia. It united the inland advantages of Aleppo with the maritime opportunities of Smyrna.