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Dinarchus, Against Demosthenes, section 73 (search)
Spartan force in 375 B.C. and played a large part in the victory of Leuctra. At Chaeronea they fought to the last man and were buried by the highway from Phocis to Thebes with the figure of a lion over their tomb. and Epaminondas and their compeers were in command. It was then that Thebes won the battle of Leuctra, then that they invaded the Spartans' country which, it was thought, could not be ravaged. During that period they accomplished many fine achievements: founded Messene in the four hundredthMessenia was first conquered about the year 700 B.C., so that the figure 400th is a very rough estimate; 300th would be nearer. Cf. Lyc. 1.62 and note. year after its fall, gave the Arcadians self-government, and won a universal reputation.
Diodorus Siculus, Library, Fragments of Book 10, Chapter 19 (search)
in his power the inhabited world, thinking it to be a disgraceful thing that the kings before his time, though possessing inferior resources, had reduced in war the greatest nations, whereas he, who had forces greater than any man before him had ever acquired, had accomplished no deed worthy of mention. When the Tyrrheniansc. 520 B.C. Not to be confused with the Tyrrhenians (Etruscans) of Italy. These Tyrrhenians came to Lemnos in all probability from Asia Minor c. 700 B.C. were leaving Lemnos, because of their fear of the Persians, they claimed that they were doing so because of certain oracles, and they gave the island over to Miltiades.The famous hero of Marathon, 490 B.C. The leader of the Tyrrhenians in this affair was Hermon, and as a result presents of this kind have from that time been called "gifts of Hermon."These are presumably presents made out of dire necessity. Modern historians say that Miltiades "conquered" Lemnos c
John Conington, Commentary on Vergil's Aeneid, Volume 1, P. VERGILI MARONIS, line 119 (search)
Urbis opus is a singular expression for urbis instar. Stat. Theb. 6. 86 imitates it, calling a funeral pile montis opus, if the reading is certain, and again Silv. 2. 2. 31, Inde per obliquas erepit porticus arces, Urbis opus, which however the commentators explain opus urbe dignum. Gossrau comp. Cic. Verr. 5. 34, Quae (navis) si in praedonum pugna versaretur, urbis instar habere inter illos piraticos myoparones videretur. Cerda comp. 8. 691, of the battle of Actium, pelago credas innare revolsas Cycladas, aut montis concurrere montibus altos, where however see note. Versus of a tier of oars, Livy 23. 30. Virg. has been guilty of an anachronism, as triremes were not invented till the historic period (Thuc. 1. 13), about B.C. 700, at the same time that he must have failed to impress a notion of vastness upon his readers, who had known ships of ten tiers at the battle of Actium, and had heard of others of sixteen, thirty, and even forty. See Dict. A. Ships.
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, section 2 (search)
nicus, himself a Lesbian, attributed the Little Iliad to Cinaethon of Lacedaemon, according to the scholiast on Eur. Tro. 821; where Thestorides of Phocis and Diodorus of Erythrae are mentioned as other writers to whom the poem had been attributed—while Lesches is not even named. The scholiast probably derived this statement from the Alexandrian Lysimachus, a learned mythographer, whose work entitled *no/stoi is often quoted., of Pyrrha, near Mitylene, and of which the approximate date is 700 B.C. In the Aethiopis, which contained the death of Achilles, Ajax played a foremost part in rescuing the corpse from the Trojans— an episode imitated from the fight over the body of Patroclus in the Iliad. As to the manner in which Arctînus conceived the contest for the arms, only two details are known. (1) After the award, Podaleirius—the physician, skilled in diagnosis of obscure ailments, as his brother Machaon was the great surgeon—perceived a fierce light in the eyes of Ajax, and a weigh
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ari'on (search)
Ari'on （*)Ari/wn). 1. An ancient Greek bard and great master on the cithara, was a native of Methymna in Lesbos, and, according to some accounts, a son of Cyclon or of Poseidon and the nymph Oncaea. He is called the inventor of the dithyrambic poetry, and of the name dithyramb. (Hdt. 1.23; Schol. ad Pind. Ol. 13.25.) All traditions about him agree in describing him as a contemporary and friend of Periander, tyrant of Corinth, so that he must have lived about B. C. 700. He appears to have spent a great part of his life at the court of Periander, but respecting his life and his poetical or musical productions, scarcely anything is known beyond the beautiful story of his escape from the sailors with whom he sailed from Sicily to Corinth. On one occasion, thus runs the story, Arion went to Sicily to take part in some musical contest. He won the prize, and, laden with presents, he embarked in a Corinthian ship to return to his friend Periander. The rude sailors coveted his treasures, an
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), A'sius (search)
A'sius （*)/Asios), one of the earliest Greek poets, who lived, in all probability, about B. C. 700, though some critics would place him at an earlier and others at a later period. He was a native of Samos, and Athenaeus (iii. p. 125) calls him the old Samian poet. According to Pausanias (7.4.2), his father's name was Amphiptolemus. Works Epic and Elegiac Poems Asius wrote epic and elegiac poems. The subject or subjects of his epic poetry are not known; and the few fragments which we now possess, consist of genealogical statements or remarks about the Samians, whose luxurious habits he describes with great naiveté and humour. The fragments are preserved in Athenaeus, Pausanias, Strabo, Apollodorus, and a few others. His elegies were written in the regular elegiac metre, but all have perished with the exception of a very brief one which is preserved in Athenaeus. (l.c.） Editions The fragments of Asius are collected in N. Bach, Callini, Tyrtaei et Asii Samii quae supersunt, &c
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Margi'tes (search)
poem, which was composed in hexameters, mixed, though not in any regular succession, with Iambic trimeters (Hephaest. Enchir. p. 16; Mar. Victorin. p. 2524, ed. Putsch.), is lost, but it seems to have enjoyed great popularity, and to have been one of the most successful productions of the Homerids at Colophon. The time at which the Margites was written is uncertain, though it must undoubtedly have been at the time when epic poetry was most flourishing at Colophon, that is, about or before B. C. 700. It is, however, not impossible that afterwards Pigres may have remodelled the poem, and introduced the Iambic trimeters, in order to heighten the conic effect of the poem. The character of the hero, which was highly comic and ludicrous, was that of a conceited but ignorant person, who on all occasions exhibited his ignorance: the gods had not made him fit even for digging or ploughing, or any other ordinary craft. His parents were very wealthy; and the poet undoubtedly intended to represe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Terpander (search)
timonies, that of Hellanicus, already referred to, is rendered some-what indefinite by the, at least partly, mythological character of Midas; but, if the date has any historical value at all, it would place Terpander at least as high as Ol. 20, B. C. 700, the date of the death of Midas, according to Eusebius. confirmed by Herodotus (1.14), who makes Midas a little older than Gyges. To the same effect is the testimony of the Lydian historian Xanthus, who lived before Hellanicus, and who placed Tn the present case, the general comparison of the testimonies makes it far from improbable that the date first assigned is about the right one. All that can be said, with any approach to certainty, is that Terpander flourished somewhere between B. C. 700 and 650, and that his career may possibly have extended either a little above the higher, or, less probably, a little below the lower, of those dates. Fortunately, we have clearer information respecting the scene and the nature of his artisti
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
eved to have been a royal monopoly in Egypt, and Wilkinson states that more bricks are found in Egypt with the stamp of Thothmes III. than of any other monarch. He is believed to be the prince who reigned at the time of the Exodus of the Hebrews. A pyramid of brick was erected by Asychis, who, according to Herodotus, preceded the king who was dispossessed by Sabaco the Ethiopian, and who was restored and eventually succeeded by Sethos, a contemporary of Sennacherib and Tirhakah, about 700 B. C. Four pyramids of this material, according to Wilkinson, still remain in Lower Egypt, independent of several smaller ones at Thebes. Two are close to Memphis and the modern town of Dashoor; the others stand at the entrance to the Fyoom. They are built of adobes, and their chambers have arched brick ceilings; but the arch was long previously used in Thebes, and was invented and used in Upper Egypt many centuries before Asychis. No trace of a burned brick has been found of the ancient ag
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
furnace. Gal′ler-y-fur′nace. A furnace used in the distillation of green vitriol, consisting of a long gallery containing two or three tiers of retorts, 100 in each row. The gallery is a flue traversed by the flame of a fire. The neck of each retort projects through the walls of the gallery and enters an exterior receiver. Gal′ley. 1. (Nautical.) a. A low, flat-built vessel with one or more rows (banks) (see bank, 5, a) of oars, said to have been invented by the Corinthians 700 B. C. The biremes, triremes, quinqueremes, etc., were galleys having so many banks of oars, — two, three, five, etc. The pentecontori had fifty oars in a single tier. The galesses of the Venetians had 130 feet keel, 30 feet beam, three masts, thirty banks (see bank, 5, b) of two oars each, each oar manned by six chained slaves. They were intro- duced into France in the reign of Charles VI., and manned by criminals. He kept forty in his service. They were abolished by Louis XV. in 1748.
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