A Sketch of Modern and Antient Geography ... Third editionLongman & Company, 1842 - 379 pages |
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... Augustus given to Octavius . The Au- gustan age of Virgil , Manilius , Asinius Pollio , Mecanas , Agrippa , Strabo , Horace , Macer , Pro- pertius , Livy , Tibullus , Ovid , Varius , Tucca , Vitruvius , Dionysius Halicarnassensis , and ...
... Augustus given to Octavius . The Au- gustan age of Virgil , Manilius , Asinius Pollio , Mecanas , Agrippa , Strabo , Horace , Macer , Pro- pertius , Livy , Tibullus , Ovid , Varius , Tucca , Vitruvius , Dionysius Halicarnassensis , and ...
Page 58
... Augustus in Inverness , not far from the high mountain Corriarok ; and , partly dividing the counties of Banff and Elgin , flows into the North Sea at some distance East of Forres , where Shakspeare lays the opening scene of Macbeth ...
... Augustus in Inverness , not far from the high mountain Corriarok ; and , partly dividing the counties of Banff and Elgin , flows into the North Sea at some distance East of Forres , where Shakspeare lays the opening scene of Macbeth ...
Page 133
... Augustus Cæsar , Divum genus ; aurea condet Sæcula qui rursus Latio , regnata per arva Saturno quondam - Virg . Æn . VI . 792 . Virg . Georg . II . 13 . Salve , magna parens frugum , Saturnia tellus , Magna virum from heaven by Jupiter ...
... Augustus Cæsar , Divum genus ; aurea condet Sæcula qui rursus Latio , regnata per arva Saturno quondam - Virg . Æn . VI . 792 . Virg . Georg . II . 13 . Salve , magna parens frugum , Saturnia tellus , Magna virum from heaven by Jupiter ...
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... Augustus as a rendezvous for his fleets in the Adriatic ; afterwards , for its having been the residence of the Emperors of the West , in the fifth cen- tury , when Rome was possessed by the Barbarians : and after that , for its being ...
... Augustus as a rendezvous for his fleets in the Adriatic ; afterwards , for its having been the residence of the Emperors of the West , in the fifth cen- tury , when Rome was possessed by the Barbarians : and after that , for its being ...
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... Augustus . This was the first inhabited part of Rome , and is sometimes put by way of eminence for the whole . Indeed , here was the residence of Romulus and the Roman Kings , of Augustus and the Roman Emperors ; whence Pala- tium has ...
... Augustus . This was the first inhabited part of Rome , and is sometimes put by way of eminence for the whole . Indeed , here was the residence of Romulus and the Roman Kings , of Augustus and the Roman Emperors ; whence Pala- tium has ...
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