A Sketch of Antient Geography, for the Use of Schools1855 |
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Strana 3
... river Ægyptus ; Pharos he makes one day's sail from its mouth ; from thence Crete is reached in five days . Westward from Egypt is the fertile country of Libya . Beyond the well - ascertained countries already enumerated , we read of ...
... river Ægyptus ; Pharos he makes one day's sail from its mouth ; from thence Crete is reached in five days . Westward from Egypt is the fertile country of Libya . Beyond the well - ascertained countries already enumerated , we read of ...
Strana 4
... river from the Italian one . Scythia and the Galactophagi are also known . In the south is Æthiopia ; the river Ægyptus now be- comes the Nile . The only way in which distance is spoken of hitherto is by the vague expression , " We ...
... river from the Italian one . Scythia and the Galactophagi are also known . In the south is Æthiopia ; the river Ægyptus now be- comes the Nile . The only way in which distance is spoken of hitherto is by the vague expression , " We ...
Strana 8
... rivers . It rises near Pyrene , in the extreme west , among the Celts , flows through mid Europe , receiving on the north five , and on the south ten great rivers , and issues by five mouths into the Pontus . Euxinus . He then names the ...
... rivers . It rises near Pyrene , in the extreme west , among the Celts , flows through mid Europe , receiving on the north five , and on the south ten great rivers , and issues by five mouths into the Pontus . Euxinus . He then names the ...
Strana 9
... rivers , the Araxes , Indus , Tigris , and Euphrates . The Caspian he considers to be an oblong inland detached sea ... river Indus ; the more distant East consists of deserts , where the Araxes loses itself by forty mouths in the sand ...
... rivers , the Araxes , Indus , Tigris , and Euphrates . The Caspian he considers to be an oblong inland detached sea ... river Indus ; the more distant East consists of deserts , where the Araxes loses itself by forty mouths in the sand ...
Strana 10
... river Triton and the lake Tritonis , to which his knowledge extended . Carthage he represents as a flourishing com- mercial city , and says that a people came thither from beyond the columns of Hercules and bought goods with gold . In ...
... river Triton and the lake Tritonis , to which his knowledge extended . Carthage he represents as a flourishing com- mercial city , and says that a people came thither from beyond the columns of Hercules and bought goods with gold . In ...
Časté výrazy a frázy
Adriatic Ægean Ægyptus Africa afterwards Alexander Alps antiently called Apennines Apollo Armenia Asia Athenians Augustus battle birth-place Bithynia Boeotia built Cæsar capital Caria Caspian celebrated centre chief city chief rivers Cilicia coast Colchis colony confines Cyrus Danube death defeated district east eastern eastward Egypt Emperor empire Epirus Euphrates Euxine extended extremity flows Galatia Gallia Gaul geographical giving name Grecian Greece Greeks Gulf hence Hercules Herodotus Homer Horace inhabitants Insula island Italy Jupiter killed king Lacedæmonians lake Latium Lilybæum Locri Macedonia Mediterranean memorable mentioned miles modern Mons Montes Mount mountains mouth Nile north-east north-west northern Numidia occupied Ovid Palus Paphlagonia peninsula Persian Phrygia Pisidia Pompey principal city promontory province Ptolemy Punic Rhine Roman Rome Scipio Scythia second Punic war shore Sicily side Sinus south-east south-west southern southward Strabo Syria Syrtis Syrtis Major temple Thessaly Tiber tribes Vindelicia Virg western whence
Populárne pasáže
Strana 52 - Charybdis 420 obsidet, atque imo barathri ter gurgite vastos sorbet in abruptum fluctus rursusque sub auras erigit alternos et sidera verberat unda.
Strana 51 - 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.
Strana 66 - Rhenumque bibunt. venient annis saecula seris, quibus Oceanus vincula rerum laxet et ingens pateat tellus Tethysque novos detegat orbes nee sit terris ultima Thule.
Strana 136 - Ibimus, o socii comitesque ! Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro : Certus enim promisit Apollo Ambiguam tellure nova Salamina futuram. O fortes, pejoraque passi 30 Mecum saepe viri, nunc vino pellite curas ; Cras ingens iterabimus aequor.
Strana 25 - Fluminaque antiquos subterlabentia muros. An mare, quod supra, memorem, quodque alluit infra ? Anne lacus tantos ? te, Lari maxime, teque, Fluctibus et fremitu assurgens, Benace, marino...
Strana 47 - Tendit, Antoni, quotiens in altos Nubium tractus. Ego apis Matinae More modoque Grata carpentis thyma per laborem Plurimum circa nemus uvidique Tiburis ripas operosa parvus Carmina fingo.
Strana 199 - Urbs antiqua fuit, Tyrii tenuere coloni, Carthago, Italiam contra Tiberinaque longe Ostia, dives opum studiisque asperrima belli...
Strana 202 - Hic vir, hic est, tibi quem promitti saepius audis, Augustus Caesar, Divi genus: aurea condet Saecula qui rursus Latio, regnata per arva Saturno quondam...
Strana 125 - Unde simul primum me dimisere Philippi Decisis humilem pennis, inopemque paterni Et laris et fundi, paupertas impulit audax, Ut versus facerem : sed, quod non desit, habentem Quae poterunt unquam satis expurgare cicutae, Ni melius dormire putem, quam scribere versus?
Strana 26 - Fonte cadit modico, parvisque impellitur undis Puniceus Rubicon, cum fervida canduit aestas : Perque imas serpit valles, et Gallica certus Limes ab Ausoniis disterminat arva colonis.