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Page 17 - Mitylene, and flourished at the end of the seventh and the beginning of the sixth century BC Alcanis was of aristocratic birth, and became a leader against the tyrants of his native city, Myrsilus and Melanehrus.
Page 74 - ... were crowned with temples, trophies, or tombs. These monuments surrounded with woods and rocks, viewed in all the accidents of light, sometimes enveloped in sable thunder clouds, at others reflecting the soft beams of the moon, the golden rays of the setting sun, or the radiant tints of Aurora, must have imparted incomparable beauty to the coasts of Greece. Thus decorated, the land presented itself to the mariner under the features of the ancient Cybele, who crowned with towers, and seated on...
Page 119 - Frat. i. 3, p. Rabir. 14), and rendered it necessary for the argentarii to be acquainted with the current value of the same coin in different places and at different times.
Page 262 - Dans l'espace de deux heures elle est inondée sur presque toute sa longueur, et il ya, vers le milieu, deux ou trois pieds d'eau. On vient alors se promener en carrosse tout au tour de la place.
Page 74 - I clambered to the summit of the cape. The Greeks excelled not less in the choice of the sites of their edifices than in the architecture of the edifices themselves. Most of the promontories of the Peloponnese, of Attica, Ionia, and the islands of the Archipelago, were crowned with temples, trophies, or tombs. These monuments, surrounded with woods and rocks, viewed in all the accidents of light, sometimes enveloped in sable thunderclouds...
Page 3 - In estimating the value of this discovery we must bear in mind two facts. The first is that the...
Page 77 - ... garlands, and raised a rude altar, on which they offered up some corn, honeycombs, and wine, and sacrificed a lamb or a sucking pig. They concluded with singing the praises of the god. The public festival in honour of this god was celebrated at the sixth mile-stone on the road towards Laurentum, doubtless because this was originally the extent of the Roman territory in that ditection. The festival of the terminalia was celebrated on the 23rd of February, on the day before the Regifugium. The...
Page 81 - Instead of fettering or forbidding private enterprise and of grudging to private collectors every fragment, however indifferent, of antique marbles or terracottas, Pius VI. invited landowners and excavators to collaborate with him in the recovery of works of art and of epigraphic documents. I am just now perusing the registers of the Vatican Museum of the last quarter of...
Page 21 - I shall not say that the discovery of the stele marks the ' bankruptcy ' of the modern hypercritical school, especially German, but one thing is certain : the discovery will shake the faith of the many who have sworn...
Page 5 - The Black Stone in the Comitium marks a place of ill omen, destined as a grave to Romulus, although the hero was not actually buried there...