The Public and Private Life of the Ancient Greeks

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J. Murray, 1836 - Greece - 358 pages

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Page iii - Some work appeared to be wanting on Grecian Antiquities, which, without being unnecessarily diffuse, should give a notion of the discoveries of modern scholars, and particularly of German scholars."— Preface.
Page 22 - A pretty carol, too, is that which the Hungarian boys, on the islands of the Danube, sing to the returning stork in Spring : " Stork ! Stork ! poor Stork ! Why is thy foot so bloody? A Turkish boy hath torn it ; Hungarian boy will heal it, With fiddle, fife, and drum.
Page 23 - ... floor, — Or we'll seize thy young wife who is sitting within, Whose form is so airy, so light, and so thin, And as lightly, be sure, will we bear her away. Then look that thy gift be ample to-day, And open the door, open the door, To the Swallow open the door ! No greybeards are we To be foil'd in our glee, But boys, who will have our will This day, But boys, who will have our will. The chief food of the swallow consisted of those chirping crickets (the i«|Uu/ec, as well as the rtVriyte )...
Page 23 - We'll bear off the door, Or its posts from the floor, — Or we'll seize thy young wife who is sitting within, Whose form is so airy, so light, and so thin, And as lightly, be sure, will we bear her away. Then look that thy gift be ample to-day, And open the door...
Page 23 - The Swallow is come ! The Swallow is come ! 0 fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white. — And wilt thou not dole From the wealth that is thine, The fig, and the bowl Of rosy wine, And the wheaten meal, and the basket of cheese, And the omelet cake, which is known to please The Swallow; that comes to the Rhodian land ? Say : Must we be gone with an empty hand, Or shall we receive The gift that we crave ? If thou give, — it is...
Page 293 - Articles with a counterfeit mark that are found in the possession of the counterfeiter or his agents shall be confiscated and sold, the proceeds of the sale being applied to the payment of the costs and indemnification established by law, and the excess, to the schools of the Provinces in which the sequestration was made.
Page 305 - The house door (Svpa av\cws) was the threshold of the forbidden world to an honourable matron ; and, to the maidens, it was fastened by a lock or seal which was loosened with the greatest solemnity on days of high festival, when they walked in procession with decorous step and downcast eyes. In this retreat they were kept, that they might not see, or hear, or ask, things unbecoming for them to know. Their youth was passed in the occupations of spinning and weaving, the management of the female slaves,...
Page 11 - ISlfi-l",) with which the reader ought to compare the ancient history of leguminous plants, of plants used for fodder, and of other esculent plants and herbs, by the same learned author (Idem, 1818-19). grant juices with which none but those of Hybla could compare. Recent travellers unite in extolling the profusion of flowers and shrubs which adorn the hills and vales of Greece. All the fragrant plants which Eupolis celebrates as the food of goats ; the laurel, the oleander, the arbutus unedo, the...
Page 162 - Him, and ten thousands times a hundred thousand stood before Him." I answer that, There have been various opinions with regard to the number of the separate substances. Plato contended that the separate substances are the species of sensible things; as if we were to maintain that human nature is a separate substance of itself: and according to this view it would have to be maintained that the number of the separate substances is the number of...
Page 62 - It is from the hands of Helen herself that the disguised Odysseus receives these services.§...

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