 A prosperous beginning here, as in Italy, invited more attempts. It was, according to Thucydides, in the very next year after the founding of Naxus, that Archias, a Corinthian of Heracleid race, led a colony to Sicily. To the southward of Naxus, but...  A Selection from the Remains of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: With Glossary ... - Page 41by Theocritus - 1846 - 155 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Mitford - Greece - 1814 - 478 pages
...Thucydides, in the very next . year after the founding of Naxus, that Archias, a Corinthian, of Heracleid race, led a colony to Sicily. To the southward of...he found a territory of uncommon fertility, with a harbor singularly safe and commodious. Within the harbor, and barely detached from the shore, was an... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 700 pages
...Nazus, that Archias, a Corinthian of Hcmcleid race, led a colony to Sicily. To the southward of Nains, but still on the eastern coast, he found a territory...watered by that remarkable fountain which, through the poeti cliieny, has acquired renown by the name of Aretbusa. From this advantageous post he expelled... | |
 | John Richardson Major - Greece - 1827 - 386 pages
...Archias, a Corinthian, of Heraclid race, led a co!ony to Sicily. To the southward of Naxus, but still OB the eastern coast, he found a territory of uncommon...from the shore, was an island, about two miles in circi'.mference, plentifully watered by that remarkable fountain, which, through the poets chiefly,... | |
 | Classical dictionaries - 1833 - 728 pages
...Thucydides, in the very next year after the founding of Naxus, that Archias, a Corinthian of Heracleid race, led a colony to Sicily. To the southward of...remarkable fountain which, through the poets chiefly, has acquired renown by the name of Arctbusa. From this advantageous post he expelled the Sicels, and... | |
 | Classical dictionaries - 1833 - 704 pages
...Thucydides, in the very next year after the founding of Naxus, that Archias, a Corinthian of Heracleid race, led a colony to Sicily. To the southward of...territory of uncommon fertility, with a harbour singularly 5,1-1 and commodious. Within the harbour, and barely detached from the shore, was an island, about... | |
 | William Mitford - Greece - 1835 - 410 pages
...Naxus, that Archias, a Ol. xii. i. Corinthian of Heracleid race, led a coB. c. 732. ]ony to Siciiy. On the eastern coast he ' found a territory of uncommon fertility, with a port singularly safe and commodious. Within the port, and barely detached from the shore, was a small... | |
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