The Deipnosophists; Or, Banquet of the Learned, Volume 3H.G. Bohn, 1854 |
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... 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 From me so loving and so glad a heart . And in another place- We sat ...
... 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 From me so loving and so glad a heart . And in another place- We sat ...
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... 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 previously spoken ...
... 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 previously spoken ...
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... round with the chief magistrate to all the altars every seventh day ; not for the sake of luxury or insolence , but doing it for the purpose of insulting the Persians . But after this the men of Crotona , as Timæus says , attempted to ...
... round with the chief magistrate to all the altars every seventh day ; not for the sake of luxury or insolence , but doing it for the purpose of insulting the Persians . But after this the men of Crotona , as Timæus says , attempted to ...
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... garments which they used to wear , he uses these expressions : - " And as for the violet and purple robes of the Ionians , and their - saffron garments , embroidered with round figures , those are c . 29. ] 841 THE ABYDENES .
... garments which they used to wear , he uses these expressions : - " And as for the violet and purple robes of the Ionians , and their - saffron garments , embroidered with round figures , those are c . 29. ] 841 THE ABYDENES .
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Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) saffron garments , embroidered with round figures , those are known to every one ; and the caps which they wear on their heads are in like manner embroidered with figures of animals . They wear also garments ...
Athenaeus (of Naucratis.) saffron garments , embroidered with round figures , those are known to every one ; and the caps which they wear on their heads are in like manner embroidered with figures of animals . They wear also garments ...
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