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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... vestige of this once great and noble city remained . Polybius , who witnessed its destruction , affirmed , as we are informed by Strabo , that he had seen the finest paintings strewed on the ground , and the Ro- man soldiers using them ...
... vestige of this once great and noble city remained . Polybius , who witnessed its destruction , affirmed , as we are informed by Strabo , that he had seen the finest paintings strewed on the ground , and the Ro- man soldiers using them ...
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... vestiges may be traced from the port or bay of Schænus , along a na- tural hollow , at the foot of a line of fortifications , There are also several pits , probably sunk to ascer- tain the nature of the soil , through which the canal ...
... vestiges may be traced from the port or bay of Schænus , along a na- tural hollow , at the foot of a line of fortifications , There are also several pits , probably sunk to ascer- tain the nature of the soil , through which the canal ...
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... vestiges of the temple of Apollo Carneius , and in the plain below , that of Ceres . Pausanias could discover no traces of the ancient temple of Juno Prodomia . ( Corinth . 11. ) The ruins of this once great and flourishing city are ...
... vestiges of the temple of Apollo Carneius , and in the plain below , that of Ceres . Pausanias could discover no traces of the ancient temple of Juno Prodomia . ( Corinth . 11. ) The ruins of this once great and flourishing city are ...
Page 61
... vestiges of the submerged city were to be seen long after the terrible event had taken place : Si quæras Helicen et Burin Achaïdos urbes , Invenies sub aquis , et adhuc ostendere nautæ Inclinata solent cum manibus oppida mersis . OVID ...
... vestiges of the submerged city were to be seen long after the terrible event had taken place : Si quæras Helicen et Burin Achaïdos urbes , Invenies sub aquis , et adhuc ostendere nautæ Inclinata solent cum manibus oppida mersis . OVID ...
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... some inconsiderable fragments of the Doric order , it contains but few vestiges of antiquity e . e Gell's Itiner . of the Morea , p . 7. Chandler's Travels , t . II . c.71 . Al . Proceeding along the coast , we cross the 64 ACHAIA .
... some inconsiderable fragments of the Doric order , it contains but few vestiges of antiquity e . e Gell's Itiner . of the Morea , p . 7. Chandler's Travels , t . II . c.71 . Al . Proceeding along the coast , we cross the 64 ACHAIA .
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