A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece: With a Map, and a Plan of Athens, المجلد 1Clarendon Press, 1828 |
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الصفحة 315 - Tum quoque marmorea caput a cervice revulsum, Gurgite quum medio portans Oeagrius Hebrus Volveret, Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Ah miseram Eurydicen! anima fugiente vocabat: Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae.
الصفحة 373 - Est nemus Haemoniae, praerupta quod undique claudit silva: vocant Tempe. per quae Peneus ab imo effusus Pindo spumosis volvitur undis, deiectuque gravi tenues agitantia fumos nubila conducit, summisque adspergine silvis inpluit et sonitu plus quam vicina fatigat.
الصفحة 375 - Bogaz, which signifies a pass or strait, is limited to that part of the course of the Peneus where the vale is reduced to very narrow dimensions. This part answers to our idea of a rocky dell, and is in length about two miles. The breadth of the Peneus is generally about fifty yards. The road through the Bogaz is chiefly the work of art, nature having left only sufficient room for the channel of the river.
الصفحة 233 - shepherds relate, that in a swamp, which trembles " when a man walks upon it, there is a spring, which " rises from the earth so as to form a river upon the " spot, eleven yards wide from bank to bank ; soon " afterwards it becomes augmented by seven other " tributary streams, called rivers by the shepherds. " But the true source of the Vardar, they say, is this
الصفحة 267 - They must ai one period have been widely spread over the north of Greece, since a district of upper Thessaly bore the name of Pelagonia Tripolitis, and it is ingeniously conjectured by Gatterer, in his learned commentary on ancient Thrace...
الصفحة 345 - Boeotia had taken the lead, Thessaly was acquiring a degree of importance 'and weight among the states of Greece which it had never possessed in any former period of its history. This was effected, apparently, solely by the energy and ability of Jason, who, from being chief or tyrant of Pherse, had risen to the rank of Tagus, or commander of the Thessalian states.
الصفحة 94 - Hadriae maior, tollere seu ponere vult freta. quem mortis timuit gradum, qui siccis oculis monstra natantia, qui vidit mare turbidum et infamis scopulos Acroceraunia? nequiquam deus abscidit prudens Oceano dissociabili terras, si tamen impiae non tangenda rates transiliunt vada.
الصفحة 63 - Aut collo decus aut capiti; vel quale per artem Inclusum buxo aut Oricia terebintho Lucet ebur; fusos cervix cui lactea crinis Accipit et molli subnectens circulus auro.
الصفحة 266 - But if we follow Strabo and Livy we shall be disposed to remove the western limits of the nation as far as the great chain of mount Scardus and the borders of Illyria.
الصفحة 194 - Arrhihaeus to his dominions, Brasidas, in conjunction with a Macedonian force, invaded Lyncus, but was soon compelled to retire by the arrival of a large body of Illyrians, who joined the troops of the Lyncestian prince, and had some difficulty in securing his retreat.