Geographia Classica, Or, The Application of Antient Geography to the Classics

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Carey and Lea, 1831 - Classical geography - 262 pages

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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.

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