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Page 122 - XENOPHON'S EXPEDITION of CYRUS into UPPER ASIA; principally from the Text of SCHNEIDER With English Notes. By the Rev. Dr. WHITE.
Page 9 - Conjugibus puerisque primus. Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi ; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro.
Page 69 - Icgis.f. [ = leg-s ; fr.leg-o, "to read"] (" That which is read"; hence," a bill," ie a proposition reduced to writing and read (to the people) with a view to its being passed into law ; hence) A law, statute, decree, ordinance.
Page 18 - NB— The figures before va, v. dep., and vn, denote the conjugation of the verb. Where the etymology is not given, the word is of very uncertain or unknown origin.
Page 65 - other things, etc., so as to be no longer perceived ; hence) To perish. inter-fïcïo, fèci, fectum, fïcëre, 3. va [for inter-facio; fr. inter, "between"; facïo, "to make"] ("To make" something to be "between" the parts of a thing; hence) 1.
Page 99 - A funeralpile ; a pyre [perhaps b6yos, " a stack or rick," from some similarity of shape]. Roma, Se, f. Bome; a city of central Italy, on the banks of the Tiber, the capital of the Roman Empire.
Page 89 - ... to be"] To be able, or have power, to do, etc., something ; (/, you, he, etc.) can. post, adv. and prep, [perhaps contracted fr. pone ("behind"), est, "it is"] 1. Adv.: Of time: Afterwards, after, later. — 2. Prep. gov. Ace, : a. Of place : Behind. — b. Of time : After \ since. post-gu , adv. [prob. for postearn ; ie post, " after " ; 6am, acc% sing. fern, of is, " this, that'*] After this or that; afterwards.
Page 81 - Ocean [Gr. шkeav¿s]. o'.-im, adv. [for oll-im; fr. oll-e, old form of ill-e, " that"] (Of time: "At that time"; hence) 1. In reference to the past : Formerly, in time past, once, once upon a time.
Page 58 - Hercules, is, m. Hercules ; son of Jupiter, and of Alcmena, the wife of Amphitryon, king of Thebes, celebrated for the twelve labours imposed upon him by Eurystheus, king of Mycense, whom he was ordered by the Fates to serve for twelve years. Among these labours was the driving off of Geryon's cattle, referred to in the story of Hercules and Cacus. After death he was deified as the god of strength and the guardian of riches. He was also regarded as the guide of the Muses; see, also, Alcldes.
Page 89 - Powerful, mighty. 1. pot-Ior, ms, comp. adj. [pSt-is, "powerful"] ("More powerful "; hence) To be preferred ; that may, or can, be preferred; preferable, better [prob. akin to Sans, root PA, " to support,"