The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... Emperor Hadrian regulating the sale of oil and the duties payable upon it . It is easy to understand how , after the erection of the Roman Agora , the old market would be styled ǹ ¿ yopà ev Kepaμeik @ or simply Cerameicus , while the ...
... Emperor Hadrian regulating the sale of oil and the duties payable upon it . It is easy to understand how , after the erection of the Roman Agora , the old market would be styled ǹ ¿ yopà ev Kepaμeik @ or simply Cerameicus , while the ...
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... emperor entertained a passionate admiration . He condescended to hold the office of archon eponymus ; in his honour a thirteenth tribe , Hadrianis , was instituted ; and the emperor shared with Zeus the title of Olympius , and the ...
... emperor entertained a passionate admiration . He condescended to hold the office of archon eponymus ; in his honour a thirteenth tribe , Hadrianis , was instituted ; and the emperor shared with Zeus the title of Olympius , and the ...
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... emperor , Athens was besieged , and the archonship abolished , upon which the strategos or general , who had previously acted as inspector of the Agora , became the chief magistrate . Under Claudius the city was taken , but recovered ...
... emperor , Athens was besieged , and the archonship abolished , upon which the strategos or general , who had previously acted as inspector of the Agora , became the chief magistrate . Under Claudius the city was taken , but recovered ...
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... Emperor Nerva permitted them to retain . This great wealth Herodes afterwards increased by his marriage . He received a careful education under the most distinguished masters of the time , and specially devoted himself to the study of ...
... Emperor Nerva permitted them to retain . This great wealth Herodes afterwards increased by his marriage . He received a careful education under the most distinguished masters of the time , and specially devoted himself to the study of ...
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... Emperor Akbar in 1581 , on a low hillock beside the river . The walls are of polished stone , and the whole structure is handsome ; but from a military point of view it is of little importance , being commanded by a hill , from which it ...
... Emperor Akbar in 1581 , on a low hillock beside the river . The walls are of polished stone , and the whole structure is handsome ; but from a military point of view it is of little importance , being commanded by a hill , from which it ...
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