Fasti Hellenici: The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the Earliest Accounts to the Death of Augustus, Volume 1University Press, 1834 |
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... persons whose profes- sion it was to lay them up in their memories and to transmit them . The andòs was a person of importance and dignity . In poetical language he was inspired by the gods ; in plain description he was one who had ...
... persons whose profes- sion it was to lay them up in their memories and to transmit them . The andòs was a person of importance and dignity . In poetical language he was inspired by the gods ; in plain description he was one who had ...
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... persons , but these are incorporated with many fictitious names . The fictions , however , will have a basis of truth ... person . The brothers Lydus , Mysus , and Car , in Herodotus d ; Caucon in Strabo ; Pelasgus , of whom there were ...
... persons , but these are incorporated with many fictitious names . The fictions , however , will have a basis of truth ... person . The brothers Lydus , Mysus , and Car , in Herodotus d ; Caucon in Strabo ; Pelasgus , of whom there were ...
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... persons ; but the connexion which they signified was substantial and real . To such names we may refer Arne the daughter of Eolus and mother of Bootuse . Here Arne belongs to the second class of names , Æolus and Bootus to the first ...
... persons ; but the connexion which they signified was substantial and real . To such names we may refer Arne the daughter of Eolus and mother of Bootuse . Here Arne belongs to the second class of names , Æolus and Bootus to the first ...
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... persons as fictitious . The mere occurrence of a name expressing a thing is not of itself a proof that the person is fabricated . Thus Charilaüs was a real person , Agesilaüs and Archi- damus were real persons , in historical times ...
... persons as fictitious . The mere occurrence of a name expressing a thing is not of itself a proof that the person is fabricated . Thus Charilaüs was a real person , Agesilaüs and Archi- damus were real persons , in historical times ...
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... person may be real , although the tale to which his name had given occasion is a mere invention , fabricated in a later age . We may acknowledge as real persons all those whom there is no reason for rejecting . The presumption is in ...
... person may be real , although the tale to which his name had given occasion is a mere invention , fabricated in a later age . We may acknowledge as real persons all those whom there is no reason for rejecting . The presumption is in ...
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Page 269 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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Page 299 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
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