Thus may we make out the assertions of Ancient Writers, and safely receive the expressions of Divines and worthy Fathers.
These two baths are probably the Pots mentioned by ancient writers.
That the kings of Paphos were also priests of the goddess is proved, apart from the testimony of ancient writers, by inscriptions found on the spot.
The situation of the various Castabalas mentioned by ancient writersis discussed by F.
But though their physicians are often noticed by ancient writers, the only indication of medical attendance appears to be in the paintings of Beni Hassan; and even there it is uncertain whether a doctor, or a barber, be represented.
But though Rome was greatly enriched by conquest, she never obtained possession of the chief wealth of Asia; and the largest quantity of the precious metals was always excluded from the calculations of ancient writers.
Descriptions of these tricks are frequent in ancient writers, particularly in the indignant invectives of the early fathers of the Church.
Rapp,[129] after a thorough comparison of ancient writers, concludes that Zoroaster lived B.
Lustrations were great acts of atonement or purification, and are often described by ancient writers.
The Chaldees are frequently mentioned in Scripture and in ancient writers.
There appears, however, to be some variance in the lists, as Selden has given them from the ancient writers.
Niceron has given a list of his publications, sixty-seven in number, including some editions of ancient writers, but for the most part confined to Illustrations of Greek usages; some also treat of Roman.
It is, however, an art not contemptible, either in respect to the taste and discernment for which it gives scope in composition, or for the enhanced pleasure it reflects on the pages of ancient writers.
With regard to Assyrian commerce, it must at the outset be remarked that direct notices in ancient writers of any real authority are scanty in the extreme.
The literary qualities most conspicuous in the fragments of Accius, and attributed to him by ancient writers, are of the same kind as those which the dramatic fragments of Ennius and Pacuvius exhibit.
Varro also is mentioned by ancient writers, in connexion with Empedocles and Lucretius, as the author of a metrical work 'De Rerum Natura[339].
His only contribution to literature in the fifteenth century was a translation of the very short mathematical treatise of Proclus on the sphere, published in a volume of ancient writers on astronomy, by Aldus Manutius, in 1499.
But his chief merit was in the restoration of the text of ancient writers.
This is the universal testimony of ancient writers.
His merits, too, have been so much canvassed by ancient writers, who judged of them while his works were yet entire, that their discussions in some measure enable us to appreciate his poetical claims.
Scaliger piqued himself on his faculty of distinguishing the characteristic styles of ancient writers.
Again, only one of the quotations from Anacreon in ancient writers is to be found in these poems, which further contain no references to contemporaries, whereas Strabo (xiv.
Its origin is variously ascribed by ancient writers, but it was probably a Venetian, i.
It was apparently not formed until the middle ages, as it is not mentioned by ancient writers; it was drained in 1870.
They have also green meadows, and breeds of noble horses, on which (as ancient writers relate, and as we ourselves have witnessed) their men when going to battle mount with great exultation.
Indeed corn and poppies singly or together were a frequent symbol of the goddess, as we learn not only from the testimony of ancient writers(156) but from many existing monuments of classical art.
In this connexion a statement of ancient writers as to the rites of Eleusis receives fresh significance.
Four[20] of these buildings are mentioned by ancient writers as having existed in republican times, viz.
The ordinary dwelling-houses of citizens, as described by ancient writers, resembled those now visible in the disinterred cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, which will be referred to under Roman Architecture.
We know very little of the life of Cephisodotus, and as little is said of his works by ancient writers.
This statue was very much praised for its beauty by ancient writers, who all mention with especial pride the eurythmy of the action of the wrist.
His date is very uncertain, though we have accounts of his works by ancient writers.
They were obliged to sleep in the temple, and we should judge, from the accounts given by ancient writers, that they were subjected to a treatment closely resembling what we now call animal magnetism, or mesmerism.
Ancient writers relate an extraordinary incident connected with the arrival of the image of Cyb'ele in Rome.
Ancient writers differ in the classification of the Greek and Roman divinities.
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