The Description of Greece, Volume 2R. Priestley, 1824 - 409 pagina's |
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Achaians Æginetes affairs afterwards Aleus Alpheus altar Altis ancient Apollo Arcadians Arcas Argives army assert Athenians Augeas Bacchus battle boys built called celebrate Ceres CHAPTER chariot conquered consequence contend contest Corinthians crowned dæmon daughter dedicated denominated Despoina Diæus distance divinity Eleans evinced father fled goddess gods Greece Greeks grove hence Hercules Homer honour horses illustrious inhabitants inscription Iones Isthmian games Jupiter king Lacedæmonians Ladon land left hand likewise Lycortas Macedonians manner Mantinenses Megalopolis Megalopolitans Mercury Messenians Minerva mountain Nemean Nemean games Neptune Nymphs Oenomaus Olympia Olympic games oracle Oxylus pancratium Patrenses Peloponnesus Pelops Pheneatæ Phigalia Philip Philopomen pillar porch present Psophis pugilist Pythian quinquertium reigned right hand river road Romans sacred sacrifice sent sepulchre Sicyonian signifies slew sons Spartans stadia stadium statue of Jupiter stone Stymphalus Tegea Tegeatæ temple of Diana Thebans tomb vanquished Venus victorious virgin wrestling
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Pagina 230 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.
Pagina 92 - ... length to Temessa with his ships. Here one of his associates having ravished a virgin, in consequence of being heated with wine, he was stoned to death by the inhabitants for the action. But Ulysses, who considered his death as of no consequence, immediately set sail and left the place. The daemon, however, of the murdered man did not at any time cease from cutting off the inhabitants of Temessa of every age, till the Pythian deity ordered them to propitiate the slain hero, to consecrate a temple...
Pagina 200 - ... to wage, Suits not my greatness, or superior age: Rash as thou art to prop the Trojan throne, (Forgetful of my wrongs, and of thy own,) And guard the race of proud Laomedon! Hast thou forgot, how, at the monarch's prayer, We shared the lengthen'd labours of a year? Troy walls I raised (for such were Jove's commands), And yon...
Pagina 203 - The globe, and whose dread earthquakes heave the ground.' The prudent chief with calm attention heard ; Then mildly thus : ' Excuse, if youth have err'd ; ' Superior as thou art, forgive th' offence, ' Nor I thy equal, or in years, or sense.
Pagina 340 - This water commences from Phylace ; and not far from hence another stream falls into the Alpheus, from fountains, which, though not large, are numerous ; and on this account the place is called Sumbola, or the confluence. But the Alpheus appears to possess something different from other rivers ; for it often hides itself in the earth, and again rises out of it. Thus it flows from Phylace and Sumbola, and merges itself in the Tegeatic land. Ascending from hence in Asaea, and mingling itself with the...
Pagina 92 - They farther report, that in consequence of the city being freed through Euthymus from this grievous calamity, his nuptials were celebrated in a very splendid manner. I have likewise heard still farther concerning this Euthymus, that he lived to extreme old age, and that having avoided death, he departed after some other manner from an association with mankind. Indeed, I have even heard it asserted, by a seafaring merchant, that Euthymus is alive at present at Temessa, and such are the reports which...
Pagina 92 - ... propitiate the slain hero, to consecrate a temple to him, and devote to him every year the most beautiful virgin in Temesa. When all this was performed according to the mandate of the god, they were no longer afflicted by the wrath of the daemon. But Euthymus, who happened to arrive at Temesa at the time at which they sacrificed after the usual manner to the daemon, having learned the particulars of this affair, requested that he might be admitted within the temple, and behold the virgin. His...
Pagina 91 - But his statue was the work of Pythagoras, and is worthy of inspection in the most eminent degree. Euthymus, after this, passing over into Italy, fought with a hero, of whom the following particulars are related. They say that Ulysses, during his wanderings after the destruction of Troy, among other cities of Italy and Sicily which he was driven to by the winds, came at length to Temessa with his ships. Here one of his associates having ravished a virgin, in consequence of being heated with wine,...
Pagina 288 - Alcinoiis' queen, Arete is her name, The same her parents, and her power the same. For know, from Ocean's god Nausithous sprung, And Peribaea, beautiful and young (Eurymedon's last hope, who ruled of old The race of giants, impious, proud, and bold; Perish'd the nation in unrighteous war, Perish'd the prince, and left this only heir), Who now by Neptune's amorous power compress'd, Produced a monarch that his people bless'd, Father and prince of the Phaeacian name; From him Rhexenor and Alcinoiis...