Homer's Iliad: books i., vi., xx., and xxiv., with a vocabulary, by J. Fergusson1851 |
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Sivu 93 - Love," were the martial courtesans known to the Greeks as the mythical Amazons. Their name is usually said to be compounded of a privative and fjia£os " the breast," because according to the professed explanation of this absurd etymology, they deprived themselves of the right breast that it might not interfere with the use of the bow. But more probably it was derived from the endearing Aramaic title of Um or Umu, given generally to the consorts of the Assyro -Baby lonian gods, and particularly to...
Sivu 134 - ... Eine sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchung, Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1932-33 (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1932). Roman antiquity to mix wine and water in the mixing krater, "a mixing vessel, especially a large bowl, in which according to the custom of ancients the wine was mixed with water, and from which the cups were filled. It was commonly of silver, sometimes with a brim of gold, sometimes all gilt.