Xenophon's Anabasis: the first four booksD. Appleton and Company, 1905 - 488 pages |
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Page 293 - Aliud genus in eodem Ponti situ, gente Sannorum, mellis, quod ab insania quam gignit maenomenon vocant. id existimatur contrahi flore rhododendri, quo scatent silvae. gensque ea, cum ceram in tributa Romanis praestet, mei, quoniam exitiale est, non vendit.
Page 426 - Spartaus were the principal actors. LACONIA was the south-easternmost division of the ancient Peloponnesus. It was the largest state of Southern Greece, and, historically considered, by far the most important. It was bounded on the north by Arcadia and Argolis, on the east and south by the sea, on the west by the gulf and state of Messenia. At the lower extremity the country divides into two branching peninsulas, including between them the Gulf of Laconia, and terminating in the two capes of Tsenarum...
Page 242 - In honor I gained them, and in honor I will die with them," he had said on a previous occasion. The long swell set in to the bay of Cadiz. The English ships moved with it, all sail set, a light southwest wind filling their canvas. Before them, lay the French ships, with the morning sun on their sails, presenting a stately and beautiful appearance. On came the...
Page 317 - ... from declaring his passion. He then tried to influence her sister Aglauros in his favor, but incited by envy, she increased Herse's prejudices against him. In revenge for her treachery he changed her into a yellow stone, and ever since yellow has been regarded as a type of Envy. 11. APOLLO. This god, the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, fostered the arts of poetry, music, and divination. From his skill in archery he received the surnames, the Far-shooting, the Dragon-slayer,...
Page 436 - They bring these victuals and divers sorts of merchandises upon rafts borne upon goats' skins blown up full of wind in manner of bladders ; and when they have discharged their goods they sell the rafts for fire and let the wind out of their goats' skins and carry them home again upon their asses by land, to make other voyages down the river1.
Page 420 - For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height).
Page 354 - ... this place, hence ; on this account, from this. hinc . . . hinc, on this side . . . on that, on the one side . . . on the other. Hispani, -orum, m., Spaniards. Hispania, -ae, f., Spain. Hispaniensis, -e, [Hispania], adj., in Spain, Spanish. As subst., Hispaniensis, -Is, m., a Spaniard. hodie, [ho = hoc, die], adv., today; now. homo. -Inis, m. and f., human being, man, person. honestas, -atis, [honos] , f., honor received from...