Geographia Classica: Or, The Application of Antient Geography to the ClassicsLea & Blanchard, 1843 - 240 من الصفحات |
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Acarnania Ægean Ægyptus afterwards Alexander Alpes antiently called Apollo Arabia Armenia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded brated built Cæsar Cæsarea Campania Cape capital Cappadocia Caria cele celebrated Cilicia coast colony Dacia Danube death defeated district East Eastern Eastward Egypt Emperor empire Epirus Euboea Euphrates Euxine extremity flows Gallia Cisalpina gave name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf Gulph Hannibal hence called Horace Imaus inhabitants Insulæ island Italy Judæa Jupiter killed king Lacedæmonians Lacus lake Lilybæum Locri Lydia Macedonia Mare Mediterranean memorable mentioned Mons Mount mountains mouth Mysia nation Nile North North-east North-west Northern Numidia opposite Palus Pannonia Paphlagonia Persian Phocis Phrygia Pisidia PLATE Pompey Pontus Portus principal city promontory province Ptolemy river Roman Rome sacred Scythia Secunda shore side Sinus Corinthiacus South South-east South-west Southern Syria Syrtis Minor temple Thessaly Tiberius town tribes Vindelicia Virg Virgil West Western whence
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الصفحة 166 - 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 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
الصفحة ii - A COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, ON EVERY TOPIC NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN CONVERSATION, Arranged under different heads, with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and...
الصفحة 52 - Charybdis 420 obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
الصفحة 141 - Jlngora, from whence the celebrated shawls and hosiery made of goat's hair were originally brought. Near this place Bajazet was conquered and made prisoner by Timour the Great, AD 1402.
الصفحة 200 - Climb'd on the whirls, and aim'd the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs ; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great earthy ocean covers all...
الصفحة 176 - BC, after he had drained the waters of the Euphrates into a new channel, and marched his troops by night into the town, through the dried bed ; and it is...
الصفحة ii - A SELECTION OF ONE HUNDRED PERRIN'S FABLES, ACCOMPANIED BY A KEY, Containing the text, a literal and free translation, arranged in such a manner as to point out the difference between the French and English idiom, &c., in 1 vol., 12mo.
الصفحة 199 - Desert, was a small and beautiful spot, or Oasis, as it is called, refreshed by streams and shade, and luxuriant with verdure, in which was the celebrated temple of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him in the form of a ram, and showed him a fountain, when himself and his army were perishing with thirst.
الصفحة ii - First American edition, with Notes and Additions, by AD BACHE, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. 18mo. 'The author has given proof of his well-known industry, and extensive acquaintance with the results of science in every part of Europe."— Monthly Mag.
الصفحة 132 - Est in conspectu Tenedos, notissima fama Insula, dives opum, Priami dum regna manebant, Nunc tantum sinus et statio male fida carinis.