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... holy offerings of unmix'd myrrh , And sweetly smelling frankincense ; and many A pure libation of fresh golden honey They pour'd along the floor . And Menander , in his Harp - player , speaking 818 [ B. XII . THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS .
... holy offerings of unmix'd myrrh , And sweetly smelling frankincense ; and many A pure libation of fresh golden honey They pour'd along the floor . And Menander , in his Harp - player , speaking 818 [ B. XII . THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS .
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... golden grasshoppers over their foreheads and in their hair and their slaves followed them , bearing folding chairs for them , in order that , if they wished to sit down , they might not be without some proper seat , and forced to put up ...
... golden grasshoppers over their foreheads and in their hair and their slaves followed them , bearing folding chairs for them , in order that , if they wished to sit down , they might not be without some proper seat , and forced to put up ...
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... 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- Nor then should aught but death have torn apart ...
... 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- Nor then should aught but death have torn apart ...
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... golden chair is always put by him , and he gets on that to descend ; on which account the king's chairbearer always follows him . And three hundred women are his guard , as Heraclides of Cuma relates , in the first book of his history ...
... golden chair is always put by him , and he gets on that to descend ; on which account the king's chairbearer always follows him . And three hundred women are his guard , as Heraclides of Cuma relates , in the first book of his history ...
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... golden bowl , the work of Theodorus of Samos . And Agathocles , in the third book of his History of Cyzicus , says , that there is also among the Persians a water called the golden water , and that it rises in seventy springs ; and that ...
... golden bowl , the work of Theodorus of Samos . And Agathocles , in the third book of his History of Cyzicus , says , that there is also among the Persians a water called the golden water , and that it rises in seventy springs ; and that ...
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