Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time ; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography ; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volum 12Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Desilver, Thomas, & Company, 1836 |
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... ( Greek ) ; with the Greeks and Romans , a mark impressed with a hot iron on the foreheads of slaves who had run away or committed theft . The Greeks used a 4 , signifying Kros ( fugiendus ) or DEUKTIKOS ( runaway ) , and the Romans an F ...
... ( Greek ) ; with the Greeks and Romans , a mark impressed with a hot iron on the foreheads of slaves who had run away or committed theft . The Greeks used a 4 , signifying Kros ( fugiendus ) or DEUKTIKOS ( runaway ) , and the Romans an F ...
Pàgina 11
... Greek geog- rapher , was born at Amasia , in Cappa- docia , about 19 A. D. , studied rhetoric and the Aristotelian philosophy , and after- wards embraced the Stoic doctrines . He travelled through Greece , Italy , Egypt , and Asia ...
... Greek geog- rapher , was born at Amasia , in Cappa- docia , about 19 A. D. , studied rhetoric and the Aristotelian philosophy , and after- wards embraced the Stoic doctrines . He travelled through Greece , Italy , Egypt , and Asia ...
Pàgina 13
... Greek oroarnyia , military command , military skill ) ; the art and science of leading armies , the art of conducting military operations ; a branch of military science , which has only of late been treated separately , and in a certain ...
... Greek oroarnyia , military command , military skill ) ; the art and science of leading armies , the art of conducting military operations ; a branch of military science , which has only of late been treated separately , and in a certain ...
Pàgina 15
... Greeks and the Greek church . STROKE OF THE SUN ( coup de soleil ) . When the direct rays of the sun , during the hot season of the year , are allowed to strike for some time upon the skin , an inflammation is produced , accompanied ...
... Greeks and the Greek church . STROKE OF THE SUN ( coup de soleil ) . When the direct rays of the sun , during the hot season of the year , are allowed to strike for some time upon the skin , an inflammation is produced , accompanied ...
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... Greek orpoon , from crpedo , I turn ) ; a systematic union of several verses . According to the pre- vailing metre in the verses , strophes are called alcaic , Asclepiadæan , & c . The dithyrambus with the Greeks was con- fined to no ...
... Greek orpoon , from crpedo , I turn ) ; a systematic union of several verses . According to the pre- vailing metre in the verses , strophes are called alcaic , Asclepiadæan , & c . The dithyrambus with the Greeks was con- fined to no ...
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