Geographia Classica, Or, The Application of Antient Geography to the Classics |
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GEOGRAPHIA CLASSICA OR THE APP Samuel 1774-1839 Butler,John 1800-1859 Frost No preview available - 2016 |
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Ægean Ægyptus Africa Alexander Alpes American ANATOMY antiently called Arabia Armenia Asia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded built CABINET Cæsar Campania capital Cappadocia Caria celebrated Cilicia coast colony containing Cyclopædia Dacia Danube death defeated district East Eastern edition Emperor empire engraved Epirus Euboea Euphrates Euxine flows Galatia Gallia Gallia Cisalpina gave name Gazette Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf Horace Imaus inhabitants Insula Isauria island Italy Journal killed king Lacus lake Latium Locri Lydia M. D. Physician Macedonia Mare Medical MEDICINE memorable Mons Mount mountains mouth Mysia nation Nile North North-east North-west Northern Numidia Palus Persian Phocis Phrygia Pisidia PLATE Pontus Portus principal city promontory province river Roman Rome Royal scene Scythia shore side Sinus Corinthiacus South South-east South-west Southern Syria Syrtis Syrtis Minor temple Thessaly tion TREATISE tribes Vindelicia Virg vols volume West Western
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Page 163 - 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 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 99 - Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis, qui feros cultus hominum recentum voce formasti catus et decorae more palaestrae, te canam, magni lovis et deorum nuntium curvaeque lyrae parentem, callidum quidquid placuit iocoso condere furto.