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Page 842
... Samians , quotes the poems of Asius , to prove that they used to wear armlets on their arms ; and that , when celebrating the festival of the Herea , they used to go about with their hair carefully combed down over the back of their ...
... Samians , quotes the poems of Asius , to prove that they used to wear armlets on their arms ; and that , when celebrating the festival of the Herea , they used to go about with their hair carefully combed down over the back of their ...
Page 864
... was probably of the troubled sea , v . Toрpúρw , " and refer the use of it in this passage to the colour of the blood , unless it be = μέλας θάνατος . And Alexis , in the third book of his Samian 864 [ B. XII . THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS .
... was probably of the troubled sea , v . Toрpúρw , " and refer the use of it in this passage to the colour of the blood , unless it be = μέλας θάνατος . And Alexis , in the third book of his Samian 864 [ B. XII . THE DEIPNOSOPHISTS .
Page 865
... Samians , called Laura ; he made those famous Samian flowers in opposition to the Lydian . And the Samian Laura was a narrow street in the city , full of common women , and of all kinds of food calculated to gratify intemperance and to ...
... Samians , called Laura ; he made those famous Samian flowers in opposition to the Lydian . And the Samian Laura was a narrow street in the city , full of common women , and of all kinds of food calculated to gratify intemperance and to ...
Page 897
... Samian says that the first war carried on by two women was that between Olympias and Eurydice ; in which Olympias advanced some- thing in the manner of a Bacchanalian , with drums beating ; but Eurydice came forward armed like a ...
... Samian says that the first war carried on by two women was that between Olympias and Eurydice ; in which Olympias advanced some- thing in the manner of a Bacchanalian , with drums beating ; but Eurydice came forward armed like a ...
Page 899
... Samians ( as Erxias says , in his His- tory of Colophon ) , having consecrated a gymnasium to Love , called the festival which was instituted in his honour the Eleutheria , or Feast of Liberty ; and it was owing to this God , too , that ...
... Samians ( as Erxias says , in his His- tory of Colophon ) , having consecrated a gymnasium to Love , called the festival which was instituted in his honour the Eleutheria , or Feast of Liberty ; and it was owing to this God , too , that ...
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