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... iron and brazen lungs . Virgil could not enumerate the infernal torments nor even the different modes of grafting trees without a hundred tongues and mouths , and an iron voice . Again , Hesiod is content with plunging the Titans into ...
... iron and brazen lungs . Virgil could not enumerate the infernal torments nor even the different modes of grafting trees without a hundred tongues and mouths , and an iron voice . Again , Hesiod is content with plunging the Titans into ...
Page 80
... iron in the whole ship [ on the Red Sea . ] " - p . 212 . " Those sewed together , and yielding without damage to the stress , slide over the banks of white coral , and even sometimes the rocks . " - p . 218 . The Cingalese also sew the ...
... iron in the whole ship [ on the Red Sea . ] " - p . 212 . " Those sewed together , and yielding without damage to the stress , slide over the banks of white coral , and even sometimes the rocks . " - p . 218 . The Cingalese also sew the ...
Page 86
... iron to barter for brass . The merchant , supercargo and captain were , in those days , commonly the same ; and not held in much repute by soldiers , or men of pleasure . One of the court of Aleinous insulting Ulysses , says , that he ...
... iron to barter for brass . The merchant , supercargo and captain were , in those days , commonly the same ; and not held in much repute by soldiers , or men of pleasure . One of the court of Aleinous insulting Ulysses , says , that he ...
Page 88
... iron and other metals , even in gold , is called a brazier , because brass was the metal first in * Il . xxiii . 750. + Πεμπασσεται.Od . iv . 412 . There are many tribes in Africa , that count by quints , as we do by decades , giving a ...
... iron and other metals , even in gold , is called a brazier , because brass was the metal first in * Il . xxiii . 750. + Πεμπασσεται.Od . iv . 412 . There are many tribes in Africa , that count by quints , as we do by decades , giving a ...
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William Bruce. use , iron not being employed till one generation be- fore the Theban war , according to Hesiod . Thus too he describes horses as driven by goads , though whips only were used in war . In like manner , he describes a ...
William Bruce. use , iron not being employed till one generation be- fore the Theban war , according to Hesiod . Thus too he describes horses as driven by goads , though whips only were used in war . In like manner , he describes a ...
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