 | William Smith - Classical geography - 1854 - 1130 pages
...water-courses from the ridges of Lycabettus are consumed in gardens and olive plantations. These waters still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer." (Leake, p. 195.) 2. Cynotarga (KwoVojrytj). was a sanctuary of Hercules and a gymnasium, situated to... | |
 | William Smith - Classical geography - 1854 - 2066 pages
...water-courses from the ridges of Lycabettus are consumed in gardens and olive plantations. These waters still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...certain degree of verdure when all the surrounding plain ¡s parched with the heat of summer." (Leake, p. 195.) 2. Cynosarge» (KwAropyts). was a sanctuary... | |
 | William Smith - Classical geography - 1854 - 1318 pages
...the ridges of Lycabettus are consumed in gardens and olive plantations. These waters still cause ;he spot to be one of the most advantageous situations near Athens for the growth of fruit and poticrbs, and maintain a certain degree of verdure when all the surrounding plain is parched with the... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1856 - 1156 pages
...water-courses from the ridges of Lycabettus are consumed in gardens and olive plantations. These waters still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous situations near Athens for the growth of frnit and jiotherbs, and maintain a certain degree of verdure when all the surrounding plain is parched... | |
 | William Smith - Classical geography - 1878 - 1212 pages
...water-courses from the ridges of Lycal»ettus are consumed in gardens and olive plantations. The>e waters still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...fruit and potherbs, and maintain a certain degree of ïcrdure when all the surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer." (I.eake, p. 19.").) 2.... | |
 | Pausanias - Greece - 1898 - 622 pages
...groves of the Academy and its plane-trees remarkable for their luxuriant growth, made the air unhealthy. They still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer " (Leake, Athens, ip 197 sq.) The olive-woods, occupying a strip of country about ten miles long by... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 474 pages
...groves of the Academy and its plane trees remarkable for their luxuriant growth, made the air unhealthy. They still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer.' (Leake, 'Athens.') It is said that Plato taught at first in the Academy, but afterwards in a garden... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 488 pages
...groves of the Academy and its plane trees remarkable for their luxuriant growth, made the air unhealthy. They still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer." (Leake, 'Athens.') It is said that Plato taught at first in the Academy, but afterwards in a garden... | |
 | Albert Forbes Sieveking - Gardening - 1899 - 508 pages
...groves of the Academy and its plane trees remarkable for their luxuriant growth, made the air unhealthy. They still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous...surrounding plain is parched with the heat of summer.' (Leake, 'Athens.') It is said that Plato taught at first in the Academy, but after wards in a garden... | |
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Academy and its plane trees remarkable for their luxuriant growth, made the air unhealthy. They still cause the spot to be one of the most advantageous situations near Athens for the growth of fruit and pot-herbs, and maintain a certain degree of verdure... 