An epitome of the history, laws, and religion of GreeceThomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, 1824 - 288 páginas |
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Thomas Stackhouse. Which oracle , they say , one of the sibyls , a long time after did , in a manner repeat to the ... oracle being consulted on the occasion , answered that the invaders would be successful , if they did not kill the ...
Thomas Stackhouse. Which oracle , they say , one of the sibyls , a long time after did , in a manner repeat to the ... oracle being consulted on the occasion , answered that the invaders would be successful , if they did not kill the ...
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... oracle , were se disheartened by this unexpected event , that they im- mediately broke up their camp , and gave up their enter- prize without striking a blow : The Athenians , out of reverence to the memory of Cod- rus , would never ...
... oracle , were se disheartened by this unexpected event , that they im- mediately broke up their camp , and gave up their enter- prize without striking a blow : The Athenians , out of reverence to the memory of Cod- rus , would never ...
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... oracle of the Pythian Apollo , or to Elis to the Olympian Jupiter , to perform the Grecian solemnities , and make oblations for the safety and preservation of their city , whom they called Theori . * They appointed lodgings for ...
... oracle of the Pythian Apollo , or to Elis to the Olympian Jupiter , to perform the Grecian solemnities , and make oblations for the safety and preservation of their city , whom they called Theori . * They appointed lodgings for ...
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... oracle advised the Athenians to defend themselves with walls of wood , some were of opinion , that they were com- manded to enter into the Acropolis , and there receive the enemy , which some of them did ; but after a des- perate ...
... oracle advised the Athenians to defend themselves with walls of wood , some were of opinion , that they were com- manded to enter into the Acropolis , and there receive the enemy , which some of them did ; but after a des- perate ...
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... oracle , as was usual in every affair of moment , altered the number of the tribes , increasing them from four to ten , and gave them new names , taken from certain ancient heroes , all born in Attica , except Ajax , the son of Telamon ...
... oracle , as was usual in every affair of moment , altered the number of the tribes , increasing them from four to ten , and gave them new names , taken from certain ancient heroes , all born in Attica , except Ajax , the son of Telamon ...
Términos y frases comunes
according afterwards ages ancient Anubis Apollo appears appointed Archons Areopagus assembly Athenians Athens Attica Bacchus brought called cause Cecrops celebrated Ceres character circumstances citadel citizens common commonwealth court Crete daughter death decree deities Demetrius divination drachms earth Egypt Egyptian enacted epithets father favour feasts festivals fiction figure flood former gave give goddess gods Grecian Greece Greeks hand harvests heaven Hebrew language Hebrew words honour Horus hundred inhabitants instituted inundation Isis judges Jupiter king labours laid language Latona laws liberty lots magistrates means Mercury Minerva Mythology oath obliged occasion Ogyges omen oracle Osiris Pausanias persons Phoenicians Piræus Pisistratus Pittheus Plutarch poets priests privilege Proedri Prytanes Prytaneum punishment received respect Roman sacred sacrifice Saturn seems senate signifies slaves solemn Solon Strabo symbols temple Theseus thing thirty tyrants thou tion tribe Venus winds
Pasajes populares
Página 256 - But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Página 231 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 254 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, Yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man.
Página 4 - And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together : for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Página 4 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 261 - And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us.
Página 158 - Behold, God is my salvation ; I will trust, and not be afraid ; for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; he also is become my salvation.
Página 186 - 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 186 - At her command rush forth the steeds divine ; Rich with immortal gold their trappings shine. Bright Hebe waits ; by Hebe, ever young, The whirling wheels are to the chariot hung. On the bright axle turns the bidden wheel Of sounding brass; the polish'd axle, steel.
Página 154 - What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah ? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war ; for God commanded me to make haste : forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not.