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... women and men who have obtained some celebrity . And one of the porticoes has not only shrines of the gods , but also what is called the gymnasium of Hermes ; and there is in it the house of Polytion , in which they say the most notable ...
... women and men who have obtained some celebrity . And one of the porticoes has not only shrines of the gods , but also what is called the gymnasium of Hermes ; and there is in it the house of Polytion , in which they say the most notable ...
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... women . And near the portico are statues of Conon and his son Timotheus , and Evagoras , the king of the Cyprians , who got the Phoenician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes ; and he acted as an Athenian and one who had ...
... women . And near the portico are statues of Conon and his son Timotheus , and Evagoras , the king of the Cyprians , who got the Phoenician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes ; and he acted as an Athenian and one who had ...
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... women to punish him . There is also another statue erected to Pandion in the Acropolis , well worth seeing . These are the ancient Eponymi of the Athenians . And after these they have as Eponymi Attalus the Mysian , and Ptolemy the ...
... women to punish him . There is also another statue erected to Pandion in the Acropolis , well worth seeing . These are the ancient Eponymi of the Athenians . And after these they have as Eponymi Attalus the Mysian , and Ptolemy the ...
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... Now if this Ptolemy was really the son of Philip the son of Amyntas , it will be clear that he inherited this madness for women from his father , who , though married to Eurydice , the daughter of Antipater ,! 12 PAUSANIAS .
... Now if this Ptolemy was really the son of Philip the son of Amyntas , it will be clear that he inherited this madness for women from his father , who , though married to Eurydice , the daughter of Antipater ,! 12 PAUSANIAS .
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... woman : but the Argives say it was not a woman that slew him , but Demeter in the form of a woman . This is the account which the Argives them- selves give of the death of Pyrrhus ; this is also what Lyceas , the expounder of his ...
... woman : but the Argives say it was not a woman that slew him , but Demeter in the form of a woman . This is the account which the Argives them- selves give of the death of Pyrrhus ; this is also what Lyceas , the expounder of his ...
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