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... nearly . 197 Philip defeated at the battle of Cynos - cephale , which puts an end to the first Mace- donian war . 192 Romans begin the war with Antiochus the Great , which continues near three years . Age of Lælius , Masinissa , the ...
... nearly . 197 Philip defeated at the battle of Cynos - cephale , which puts an end to the first Mace- donian war . 192 Romans begin the war with Antiochus the Great , which continues near three years . Age of Lælius , Masinissa , the ...
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... nearly spherical ; the polar axis being only about 38 miles shorter than the equatorial , which , in a diameter of near 8000 miles , can produce no sensible difference . The principal circles on the globe are the Equator , the Ecliptic ...
... nearly spherical ; the polar axis being only about 38 miles shorter than the equatorial , which , in a diameter of near 8000 miles , can produce no sensible difference . The principal circles on the globe are the Equator , the Ecliptic ...
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... nearly . The diameter on which the circle revolves is called its axis . The ex- treme points of this diameter are called its poles , from woλsiv to urn round . A great circle is any circle described on a sphere , whose diameter is equal ...
... nearly . The diameter on which the circle revolves is called its axis . The ex- treme points of this diameter are called its poles , from woλsiv to urn round . A great circle is any circle described on a sphere , whose diameter is equal ...
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... nearly opposite , but a little North , of the Island of Aland ; the Tornea rises from a Lake of the same name , and enters the Gulph of Bothnia at its Northern ex- tremity , near the town of Tornea , the most Northern city in Europe ...
... nearly opposite , but a little North , of the Island of Aland ; the Tornea rises from a Lake of the same name , and enters the Gulph of Bothnia at its Northern ex- tremity , near the town of Tornea , the most Northern city in Europe ...
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... nearly the whole of the Southern German States , Belgium , and part of Switzerland . The King is the head of the Church of England . The established Religion of Ireland is that of the Church of England ; but the mass of the population ...
... nearly the whole of the Southern German States , Belgium , and part of Switzerland . The King is the head of the Church of England . The established Religion of Ireland is that of the Church of England ; but the mass of the population ...
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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.