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... famous embassy of Scipio , Metellus , Mummius , and Panatius into Egypt , Syria , and Greece . 135 The history of the Apocrypha ends . 133 Numantia taken . Pergamus annexed to the Roman em- pire . 121 Caius Gracchus killed . Age of ...
... famous embassy of Scipio , Metellus , Mummius , and Panatius into Egypt , Syria , and Greece . 135 The history of the Apocrypha ends . 133 Numantia taken . Pergamus annexed to the Roman em- pire . 121 Caius Gracchus killed . Age of ...
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... famous Battle of Corunna , between the English and French , the latter of whom were defeated ; but the English General , Sir John Moore , fell in the action , 16th January , 1809 . Carthagena 37 37 1 8 Alicant 38 16 0 5 Also the ...
... famous Battle of Corunna , between the English and French , the latter of whom were defeated ; but the English General , Sir John Moore , fell in the action , 16th January , 1809 . Carthagena 37 37 1 8 Alicant 38 16 0 5 Also the ...
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... famous Rock of N. La . W. Lo . Gibraltar 36 " 6 ' 5 ° 22 ′ Trafalgar 36 11 Belonging to the English , who took it in 1704 . 6 2 The promontory at the entrance into the Straights of Gibraltar is the ever- memorable Cape Trafalgar , where ...
... famous Rock of N. La . W. Lo . Gibraltar 36 " 6 ' 5 ° 22 ′ Trafalgar 36 11 Belonging to the English , who took it in 1704 . 6 2 The promontory at the entrance into the Straights of Gibraltar is the ever- memorable Cape Trafalgar , where ...
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... famous cataract of Niagara is on the river of that name , which empties itself from the Lake Erie into the Lake Ontario . This cataract is from 140 to 160 feet high , and more than three quarters of a mile in the whole breadth ...
... famous cataract of Niagara is on the river of that name , which empties itself from the Lake Erie into the Lake Ontario . This cataract is from 140 to 160 feet high , and more than three quarters of a mile in the whole breadth ...
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... famous Temple of Fortune , the subject of the Ode of Horace . O Diva gratum quæ regis Antium . Od . I. 35 . + Ostrea Circæis , Miseno oriuntur echini . Hor . Sat. II . 4 . - Circæis nata forent , an Lucrinum ad saxum , Rutupinove edita ...
... famous Temple of Fortune , the subject of the Ode of Horace . O Diva gratum quæ regis Antium . Od . I. 35 . + Ostrea Circæis , Miseno oriuntur echini . Hor . Sat. II . 4 . - Circæis nata forent , an Lucrinum ad saxum , Rutupinove edita ...
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Page 216 - 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 248 - 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 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Page 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Page 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Page 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.