Geographia Classica, Or The Application of Antient Geography to the ClassicsLea & Blanchard, 1847 - Classical antiquities |
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Acarnania Ægean Ægyptus Africa afterwards Alexander Alpes antiently called Apollo Arabia Armenia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia bounded brated built Cæsar Cæsarea Campania capital Cappadocia Caria cele celebrated cents Cilicia coast colony Dacia Danube death defeated district East Eastern Eastward edition Egypt Emperor empire Epirus Euboea Euphrates Euxine extra cloth flows Gallia Cisalpina Georg giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulph Hannibal hence called Horace Imaus inhabitants island Italy Jupiter killed king Lacedæmonians lake Latium Lilybæum Locri Lydia Macedonia Mare Mediterranean memorable Mons Mount mountains mouth Mysia nation neat Nile North North-east North-west Northern Numidia octavo volume Palus 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 tribes Vindelicia Virg Virgil West Western whence
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Page 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 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 197 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Page 134 - Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro ; Certus enim promisit Apollo Ambiguam tellure nova Salamina futuram. O fortes pejoraque passi Mecum saepe viri, nunc vino pellite curas ; Cras ingens iterabimus aequor.