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AELIAN Amnisos Amphimalla ancient city Apokorona APOLLONIUS RHODIUS Aptera Armyró arrived ATHENAEUS Athens authors Axos called Candia Captain Maniás cavern celebrated CHAP Christian church Cnossos coins Consul Creta Sacra Cretan Crete Cydonia DIODORUS SICULUS district feet fortress Gortyna Greece grotto Hághios Hegúmenos Herodotus inhabitants inscription island Kástron Khaniá Kreta Lappa legend LEO ALLATIUS LOBECK Megálo-Kástron Mehmét-Alí Melidhóni mentioned metókhi MEURSIUS miles Minoa modern Greek Mohammedans monastery mountains neighbourhood observed Pashá passage PAUSANIAS peasants plain Pliny Pococke port Professor Hoeck remains Rhithymna Rhíthymnos Roman ruins Saint Scylax seen Sfakian shew situated soon STEPHANUS Stephanus of Byzantium Strabo Súdha summit supposed tion tomb Travels Turkish Turks Tylissos Venetian village walls word Zeus ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ δὲν Διὸς εἰς ἐκ ἐν καὶ Κρήτης μὲν νὰ οἱ πόλις πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 178 - When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Page 270 - Credo Pudicitiam Saturno rege moratam in terris visamque diu, cum frigida parvas praeberet spelunca domos, ignemque Laremque et pecus et dominos communi clauderet umbra...
Page 70 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished : and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Page 123 - He had a crois of laton ful of stones, And in a glas he hadde pigges bones. But with these relikes, whanne that he fond A poure persone dwelling up on- lond, Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monethes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and japes, He made the persone, and the peple, his apes.
Page 27 - With a soft inland murmur. — Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Page 320 - ... continually amused with local fables resembling those of antiquity, repeated by all, but believed by scarcely any, and in general, least of all by those who live in the places from whence they originate. The water of the springs of Bunàr-bashi seems to be nearly of the same temperature, of 60° all the year, and will consequently feel cool when the air is at 70° or 80°, and warm when it is at 40° or 50°.
Page 181 - Before I was aware of this Greek concealment of the face, I was not a little surprised to find myself graciously regarded by a pair of eyes belonging, as I supposed, to some unknown Turkish lady, but which, as I afterwards found out, were those of my hostess. Her husband says that he thinks the custom...
Page 106 - the bishop' there, whether a sincere Christian, who professed Islamism, and was supposed to be a true believer in it, could t« saved. The bishop sternly answered, that any Christian who shunned the open profession of his faith, had no chance of salvation : and on this the old man immediately took a resolution, which was also adopted by nearly half the members of his clan. Thirty Kurmulidhes determined at once to go to the Pasha at the Kdstron, to confess that they were Christians, and to endure...
Page 213 - A good hour was spent in reaching the summit, towards the northern extremity of which I observed foundations of the massive walls of a building the length of which was about eighty feet. Within this space is an aperture in the ground, which may perhaps once have led into a moderate-sized cave; but, whatever may have been its former size, it is now so filled up, that a man cannot stand in it, and its diameter is not above eight or ten feet. These then are the only remains of that object of deep religious...
Page 4 - The arches are still to be seen, which were designed for the Venetian galleys; and coats of arms are found over the doorways of some of the principal houses.