A Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Greece: With a Map, and a Plan of Athens, Volume 3Clarendon Press, 1828 - Greece |
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... mount Arachmeus , now Sophico . This small ter- ritory was rugged and mountainous ; whence the epithet of ὀφρυόεντα Κόρινθον . The greatest part of it was consequently barren , ( Strab . VIII . loc . cit . ) ex- cept towards Sicyon ...
... mount Arachmeus , now Sophico . This small ter- ritory was rugged and mountainous ; whence the epithet of ὀφρυόεντα Κόρινθον . The greatest part of it was consequently barren , ( Strab . VIII . loc . cit . ) ex- cept towards Sicyon ...
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... mount Cerynea , on the bor - Cerynea ders of Arcadia . ( Pausan . Achaic . 25. ) If the Buraï- cus , which also flowed from the same chain , is the river of Calavrita , as Dodwell supposed , it is diffi- cult to identify the Cerynites ...
... mount Cerynea , on the bor - Cerynea ders of Arcadia . ( Pausan . Achaic . 25. ) If the Buraï- cus , which also flowed from the same chain , is the river of Calavrita , as Dodwell supposed , it is diffi- cult to identify the Cerynites ...
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... mount Scollis , which Homer designates by the name of " Olenian rock . ” ( VIII . p . 387. ) Ὄφρ ̓ ἐπὶ Βουπρασίου πολυπύρου βήσαμεν ἵππους Πέτρης τ ' Ωλενίης , καὶ ̓Αλεισίου ἔνθα κολώνη Τ Κέκληται . The modern appellation is Santa Meri ...
... mount Scollis , which Homer designates by the name of " Olenian rock . ” ( VIII . p . 387. ) Ὄφρ ̓ ἐπὶ Βουπρασίου πολυπύρου βήσαμεν ἵππους Πέτρης τ ' Ωλενίης , καὶ ̓Αλεισίου ἔνθα κολώνη Τ Κέκληται . The modern appellation is Santa Meri ...
Page 75
... mount Scollis , and to the south- west of Pharæ , probably at Gifto Castro or Portes . According to Stephanus , Byz . ( v . Ekóλλs . ) there Scollis . was an Achæan town named Scollis ; and in Lapiè's map its ruins are laid down at ...
... mount Scollis , and to the south- west of Pharæ , probably at Gifto Castro or Portes . According to Stephanus , Byz . ( v . Ekóλλs . ) there Scollis . was an Achæan town named Scollis ; and in Lapiè's map its ruins are laid down at ...
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... mount Pholoe , and fell into the sea below the Peneus , stood Ephyre , which disputed with the city of the same name in Thesprotia the honour of being mentioned in the poems of Homer . As this point has been already discussed in the ...
... mount Pholoe , and fell into the sea below the Peneus , stood Ephyre , which disputed with the city of the same name in Thesprotia the honour of being mentioned in the poems of Homer . As this point has been already discussed in the ...
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