The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... gold ; Immortal Hebe , fresh with bloom divine , The golden goblet crowns with purple wine ; While the full bowl flows round the Powers employ Their careful eyes on long - contended Troy . And the same poet represents Menelaus as saying ...
... gold ; Immortal Hebe , fresh with bloom divine , The golden goblet crowns with purple wine ; While the full bowl flows round the Powers employ Their careful eyes on long - contended Troy . And the same poet represents Menelaus as saying ...
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... gold ; and it was sur- rounded by four small pillars made of gold , inlaid with precious stones , and on them there was spread a purple cloth richly embroidered . 9. But Clearchus the Solensian , in the fourth book of his Lives , having ...
... gold ; and it was sur- rounded by four small pillars made of gold , inlaid with precious stones , and on them there was spread a purple cloth richly embroidered . 9. But Clearchus the Solensian , in the fourth book of his Lives , having ...
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... gold ; and this was called the king's pillow . And at his feet was another supper- room , prepared with three couches , in which there were constantly kept three thousand talents of silver ; and this was called the king's footstool ...
... gold ; and this was called the king's pillow . And at his feet was another supper- room , prepared with three couches , in which there were constantly kept three thousand talents of silver ; and this was called the king's footstool ...
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... gold . And it is a custom with them also to breed up in their houses little mannikins and dwarfs ( as Timon says ) , who are called by some people στíλπшves ; and also little Maltese dogs , which follow them even to the gymnasia . And ...
... gold . And it is a custom with them also to breed up in their houses little mannikins and dwarfs ( as Timon says ) , who are called by some people στíλπшves ; and also little Maltese dogs , which follow them even to the gymnasia . And ...
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... gold . And he also erected on the funeral pile a chamber a hundred feet long , made of wood ; and in it he had couches spread , and there he himself lay down with his wife , and his concubines lay on other couches around . For he had ...
... gold . And he also erected on the funeral pile a chamber a hundred feet long , made of wood ; and in it he had couches spread , and there he himself lay down with his wife , and his concubines lay on other couches around . For he had ...
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