The Pilgrimage of the Tiber: From Its Mouth to Its Source: with Some Account of Its Tributaries |
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... hand . Meals were improvised and every one seemed gay and happy . Agreeably to the plan of this volume , I shall not detain the reader during this part of the journey , but take the stream in its upward course from Ostia . In two hours ...
... hand . Meals were improvised and every one seemed gay and happy . Agreeably to the plan of this volume , I shall not detain the reader during this part of the journey , but take the stream in its upward course from Ostia . In two hours ...
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... hand and a victory in the other , having at his feet an eagle bearing away Ganymede . The upper part of his body was naked , the lower clothed . All these characters were supposed to have a mystic meaning ; the throne denoting stability ...
... hand and a victory in the other , having at his feet an eagle bearing away Ganymede . The upper part of his body was naked , the lower clothed . All these characters were supposed to have a mystic meaning ; the throne denoting stability ...
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... hand an aspergillum for the scattering of consecrated water , and in the other a long scourge and a shell , in which are fruits and a pine cone . From his head depend two strings of beads of recurrent sizes , long enough to have served ...
... hand an aspergillum for the scattering of consecrated water , and in the other a long scourge and a shell , in which are fruits and a pine cone . From his head depend two strings of beads of recurrent sizes , long enough to have served ...
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... hand the initiation of Atys . After having taken the initiatory rite , by mutilating himself , he seizes the musical instruments and calls upon his fellows to join him in the new worship . " The whole band , " says the poet ...
... hand the initiation of Atys . After having taken the initiatory rite , by mutilating himself , he seizes the musical instruments and calls upon his fellows to join him in the new worship . " The whole band , " says the poet ...
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... hand . The beast , inciting himself , pricks up his impetuous spirit , runs , roars , and breaks down the bushes in his headlong course . But when he reached the verge of the foam- whitened shore , and saw soft Atys near the breakers ...
... hand . The beast , inciting himself , pricks up his impetuous spirit , runs , roars , and breaks down the bushes in his headlong course . But when he reached the verge of the foam- whitened shore , and saw soft Atys near the breakers ...
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