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Common terms and phrasesaccording Aegypt Alps ancient Apennines appears Appian Arrian Asia Athenians bank Caesar called capital celebrated coast coins colony comp considerable derived described Diod Dion Dionys distance district east eastern emperor Empire extended flows frontier Gallia geographers Greece Greek gulf Herod Herodotus Hierocl hill Hispania Hispania Baetica inhabitants inscriptions island Italy Itin Itinerary king Laconia lake Latin Latium latter Lavinium Leake Ligurian Livy Locri Lucanians Lycia Macedonia Massalia Megara Mela Menapii mentioned Messenian miles modem modern Mount mountains neighbourhood neighbouring northern noticed occupied Paus Pausanias peninsula period Persian plain Plin Pliny Polyb Polybius port probably promontory province Ptol Ptolemy remains river road Roman Rome ruins Scylax Sicily side situated southern Sparta stadia Steph Strab supposed temple territory Thuc tion town tribes valley viii village walls western writers Popular passagesPage 363 - And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. Page 1 - Saul, all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Page 364 - And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. Page 364 - And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting. Page 364 - Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed. Page 266 - Saul also and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon. Page 124 - It is composed entirely of shingle, being so uniform a mass of round stones, some to the size of a man's head, but of all sizes less, that the newly thrown up shingle of a seashore is hardly less free from soil ; beneath these surface-stones is not so much a sand as a cemented rubble, a small mixture of loam. Vegetation is rare and miserable... Page 382 - Over the lintel of the gate is a triangular gap in the masonry of the wall, formed by an oblique approximation of the side courses of stone. The object of this was to keep off the pressure of the superincumbent wall from the flat lintel. Page 364 - The whole of the plains are covered with the sites of towns on every eminence or spot convenient for the construction of one : and as the land is capable of rich cultivation, there can be no doubt that the country, now so deserted, once presented a continued picture of plenty and fertility Page 267 - ... and a half. Two marshes bound the extremities of the plain : the southern is not very large, and is almost dry at the conclusion of the great heats ; but the northern, which generally covers considerably more than a square mile, offers several parts which are at all seasons impassable. Both however leave a broad, firm, sandy beach between them and the sea. The uninterrupted flatness of the plain is hardly relieved by a single... References from web pagesA Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, by William Smith (1873 ... Hyperborea & The Rhipaean Mountains Apollonius.Net - White Syrians Of Aramaean Cappadocia A DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN GEOGRAPHY (TAURIS ACADEMIC ... Apollonius.Net - Les Syriens Blancs 池田文庫（洋） Katalog Nr. 143: Geschichte Inhaltsverzeichnis От ELEMENTA NOVA PRO HISTORIA MACEDONO-BULGARICA, Bibliographic information
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