Geographia Classica: Or, The Application of Ancient Geography to the Classics. For the Use of Students |
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Ægyptus Africa afterward Alexander Alps anciently called Apollo Arabia Armenia Asia Athenians Attica Augustus bank birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded built Cæsar Campania Cape capital Cappadocia Caria celebrated Cilicia coast colony Danube defeated district eastern eastward Egypt emperor Epist Euboea Euphrates Euxine famous flows Galatia giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf Hannibal Hellespont hence called Horace inhabitants Insula interior Isauria island Italy Judæa king Lacedæmonians lake Latium little north Locri Lydia lying Macedonia Mare Masinissa Mediterranean memorable mentioned Mons Mount mountain mouth Mysia nation Nile north east north west northern Numidia occupied opposite Palus Pamphylia Pannonia Paphlagonia Persian Phocis Phrygia Pisidia Pontus port principal city promontory province residence retains its name Rhine river Roman Rome scene Scythia shore Sinus Corinthiacus south east south west southern extremity Syria Syrtis Syrtis Major temple Thebes Thessaly tion town tribes Vindelicia Virg Virgil west side western
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Page 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 2 - States entitled an act for the encouragement of learning hy securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the author., and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and also to an act entitled an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and...
Page 118 - It comprised several provinces, and was bounded on the west by Media, on the north by Hyrcania and Parthia, on the east by Bactria, and on the south by Carmania and Gedrosia. The capital was Artacoana, now Herat.
Page 89 - There was a celebrated kingdom of Asia Minor known by this name, of which Sardis was the capital. It is supposed to have been settled by .the posterity of Lud, a son of Shem. It had Mysia on the north, Phrygia on the east, Caria on the south, and the Egean Sea on the west.
Page 55 - Proserpine, which it 100 was death to. reveal*. They lasted 1800 years, and were abolished by the Emperor Theodosius. The statue of the Eleusinian Ceres, the work of Phidias, was removed from Eleusis by Dr. Clarke, AD 1801, and is now in the vestibule of the public library at Cambridge, and the temple itself has since been cleared by Sir W.
Page 74 - The metal which composed it loaded 900 camels. Patmos was the island to which the apostle John was banished, and where he wrote the book of revelation. Scio was famous for its wine and earthen wares. Lemnos was sacred to Vulcan. In the forum of its principal town was the statue of an ox, made by Myron, the back of which, at the winter solstice, was overshadowed by mount Athos, though 80 miles distant. 43. Cities. Of these there were several, the capitals of the different states of which Greece was...
Page 96 - Alexander nearly lost his life, by bathing when hot in the cold stream of the Cydnus, and here that Cleopatra paid her celebrated visit to Antony, in all the pomp and pageantry of Eastern luxury, herself attired like Venus, and her attendants like Cupids, in a galley covered with gold, whose sails were of purple, the oars of silver, and cordage of silk, a fine description of which may be seen in Shakspear's play of Antony and Cleopatra, Act.
Page 112 - 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...
Page 29 - Hispania Citerior was afterwards called Tarraconensis, from Tarraco its capital, and extended from the foot of the Pyrenees to the mouth of the Durius, or Douro, on the Atlantic shore, comprehending all the North of Spain, together with...