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... ancients believed that there were three sisters who regulated the fate of men . One , whose name was Clotho , was supposed to spin the thread of each person's life , and when the whole thread was spun and the distaff was left bare his ...
... ancients believed that there were three sisters who regulated the fate of men . One , whose name was Clotho , was supposed to spin the thread of each person's life , and when the whole thread was spun and the distaff was left bare his ...
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... ancients commonly represented the heavenly bodies as riding on chariots ( p . 10 , v . 28 ) . The poets often use ... ancient practice at Rome in respect to the dead was to bury them without burning . Afterwards burning became more ...
... ancients commonly represented the heavenly bodies as riding on chariots ( p . 10 , v . 28 ) . The poets often use ... ancient practice at Rome in respect to the dead was to bury them without burning . Afterwards burning became more ...
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... ancient name for Lydia in Asia Minor . Homer was supposed by some to have been born at Smyrna , the chief town of Lydia . Ovid says that all poets drink from Homer as from a perpetual fountain . Pierian waters ' is a phrase for poetry ...
... ancient name for Lydia in Asia Minor . Homer was supposed by some to have been born at Smyrna , the chief town of Lydia . Ovid says that all poets drink from Homer as from a perpetual fountain . Pierian waters ' is a phrase for poetry ...
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... ancients ( and still retained ) to a lake in Campania in Italy . The waters , which were very deep , sent forth noxious vapours , the lake being formed in the crater of a volcano . For this reason it was sup- posed to be one of the ways ...
... ancients ( and still retained ) to a lake in Campania in Italy . The waters , which were very deep , sent forth noxious vapours , the lake being formed in the crater of a volcano . For this reason it was sup- posed to be one of the ways ...
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... ancients believed that the spirits of the departed lived in unsubstantial bodies , which the Romans called umbrae ' or ' imagines , ' that is , the shadows or images of the true bodies . But many educated Romans of Ovid's time affected ...
... ancients believed that the spirits of the departed lived in unsubstantial bodies , which the Romans called umbrae ' or ' imagines , ' that is , the shadows or images of the true bodies . But many educated Romans of Ovid's time affected ...
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