Archæologia Græca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece, Volume 2W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, L. Hawes, N. Clarke and R. Collins, B. White, R. Horsfield ... [and 14 others], 1775 - Greece |
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Achilles Æneid againſt Agamemnon Ages alfo alſo ancient appears Ariftophanes Athenæus Athenians Athens becauſe Bucklers caft call'd called commonly confifted Cuftom cuftomary Dead Defign defign'd Enemies Entertainments Euftathius Euripides faid fame Father feems feveral fhall fhould fignifies firft firſt flain fome fometimes fpeaking frequently fuch Funeral Gods Grecians Greece Greeks Hair hath Hence Herodotus himſelf Homer Honour Horfes Houfe Houſe Iliad Inftances Lacedæmonians laft Laws likewife Lycophron Lycurgus moft moſt Name Number obferv'd obferved Occafion Ovid Paffage Paufanias Perfons Place Plutarchus Poet Pollux prefent publick Reaſon reft Scholiaft ſeveral Ships Soldiers Sorts Spartan ſpeaks Suidas term'd thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe thought Thucydides Trojan Trojan War ufually us'd uſed uſually Veffels Virgil whence whereof whofe Wine Women Xenophon γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν μοι οἱ τὰ τε τὴν τὸ τὸν τῶν ὡς
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Page 75 - The sovereign bids him peaceful sounds inspire, And give the waves the signal to retire. His writhen shell he takes, whose narrow vent . Grows by degrees into a large extent ; Then gives it breath; the blast, with doubling sound, Runs the wide circuit of the world around.
Page 256 - No remedies to heal their love-sick lord! To cure the pains of love, no plant avails; And his own physic the physician fails.
Page 97 - Achilles all of life bereft. Then when the walls of Thebes he overthrew, His fatal hand my royal father...
Page 292 - ... young men. And so he continues to do, spending his days, and, indeed, his nights, with them, visiting his bride in fear and shame, and with circumspection, when he thought he should not be observed; she, also, on her part, using her wit to help and find favourable opportunities for their meeting, when company was out of the way.
Page 345 - My fate she follow'd. Ignorant of this (Whatever) danger, neither parting kiss, Nor pious blessing taken, her I leave, And in this only act of all my life deceive. By this right hand and conscious Night I swear, My soul so sad a farewell could not bear. Be you her comfort; fill my vacant place (Permit me to presume so great a grace) Support her age, forsaken and distress'd. That hope alone will fortify my breast Against the worst of fortunes, and of fears.
Page 245 - When, at the spring's approach, their marrow burns, (For with the spring their genial warmth returns) The mares to cliffs of rugged rocks repair, And with wide nostrils snuff the western air : When (wond'rous to relate) the parent wind, Without the stallion propagates the kind. Then, fir'd with am'rous rage, they take their (light Thro' plains, and mount the hills...
Page 229 - Fate's severe decree, A new Marcellus shall arise in thee! Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mix'd with the purple roses of the spring: Let me with fun'ral flow'rs his body strow: This gift, which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!
Page 345 - Whatever fortune, good or bad, betide, The same shall be my age, as now my youth ; No time shall find me wanting to my truth.
Page 149 - ... with a ditch and parapet, or wall built in the form of a semicircle, and extended from one point of the sea to another. This was sometimes defended by towers, and beautified with gates, through which they issued forth to attack their enemies.
Page 172 - Night rushes down, and headlong drives the day: 'T is here, in different paths, the way divides ; The right to Pluto's golden palace guides; The left to that unhappy region tends, Which to the depth of Tartarus descends; The seat of night profound, and punish'd fiends.