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... Sinus Hadriaticus . West of the Veneti are the Euganei . The principal Cities in Gallia Cisalpina are Mediola- num ... Sinus Tergestinus , near Aquileia , is the river Timavus † , and then Tergeste , * Mantua , væ miseræ nimium vicina ...
... Sinus Hadriaticus . West of the Veneti are the Euganei . The principal Cities in Gallia Cisalpina are Mediola- num ... Sinus Tergestinus , near Aquileia , is the river Timavus † , and then Tergeste , * Mantua , væ miseræ nimium vicina ...
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... vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis Destinat atque unum civem donare Sibyllæ . f || Principis angusta Caprearum in rupe sedentis . Juv . Sat. III . 2 . Juv . Sat. X. 85 . of the Sinus Postanus is Salernum , now Salerno . 94.
... vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis Destinat atque unum civem donare Sibyllæ . f || Principis angusta Caprearum in rupe sedentis . Juv . Sat. III . 2 . Juv . Sat. X. 85 . of the Sinus Postanus is Salernum , now Salerno . 94.
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Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) of the Sinus Postanus is Salernum , now Salerno . North West of Capua are Suessa Auruncorum and Teanum , now Sezza and Tiano * , the latter of these places was a favourite residence of the ...
Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) of the Sinus Postanus is Salernum , now Salerno . North West of Capua are Suessa Auruncorum and Teanum , now Sezza and Tiano * , the latter of these places was a favourite residence of the ...
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... sinus Herculei , si vera est fama , Tarenti , Cernitur , attollit se Diva Lacinia contra , Caulonisque arces , et navifragum Scylacæum . Virg . Æn . III . 551 . See also a beautiful story respecting the painting of Venus by Zeuxis in ...
... sinus Herculei , si vera est fama , Tarenti , Cernitur , attollit se Diva Lacinia contra , Caulonisque arces , et navifragum Scylacæum . Virg . Æn . III . 551 . See also a beautiful story respecting the painting of Venus by Zeuxis in ...
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... Sinus , thought to be Calvi , and on the opposite side , above Mariana , Manti- norum Oppidum , now Bastia . About the middle of the Western side was Uranium , now Ajaccio , said to have * Nimborum in patriam , loca fœta furentibus ...
... Sinus , thought to be Calvi , and on the opposite side , above Mariana , Manti- norum Oppidum , now Bastia . About the middle of the Western side was Uranium , now Ajaccio , said to have * Nimborum in patriam , loca fœta furentibus ...
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Seite 216 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 248 - Caesar et omnis luli progenies magnum caeli ventura sub axem. 790 hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, divi genus, aurea condet saecula qui rursus Latio regnata per arva Saturno quondam, super et Garamantas et Indos proferet imperium ; iacet extra sidera tellus, extra anni solisque vias, ubi caelifer Atlas axem umero torquet stellis ardentibus aptum.
Seite 48 - Arctic, on the East by the Pacific, and on the South by the Indian Ocean ; its Western boundary, which separates it from Europe, has already been described.
Seite 105 - Portus ab accessu ventorum immotus et ingens 570 ipse; sed horrificis iuxta tonat Aetna ruinis interdumque atram prorumpit ad aethera nubem, turbine fumantem piceo et candente favilla, attollitque globos flammarum et sidera lambit: interdum scopulos avolsaque viscera montis 575 erigit eructans liquefactaque saxa sub auras cum gemitu glomerat fundoque exaestuat imo.
Seite 105 - Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis Obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos Sorbet in abruptum fluctus, rursusque sub auras Erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda. At Scyllam caecis cohibet spelunca latebris, 425 Ora exsertantem et naves in saxa trahentem. Prima hominis facies et pulchro pectore virgo Pube tenus, postrema immani corpore pistrix Delphinum caudas utero commissa luporum.
Seite 250 - Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain.