This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...Te Sibvpoyfvfs uyajta irarpiSos dcpaves agaves IwiroKpora Xfkom( 8dir(8a yvpvdaid re SovaKoevros Evpara, vf avian irovov. If, indeed, there were any other evidence for the proximity of the Dromos to the river, we might suppose that, as there were two gymnasia included within it (Paus. iii. 14, 6), the words yvjivdcria ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...Te Sibvpoyfvfs uyajta irarpiSos dcpaves agaves IwiroKpora Xfkom( 8dir(8a yvpvdaid re SovaKoevros Evpara, vf avian irovov. If, indeed, there were any other evidence for the proximity of the Dromos to the river, we might suppose that, as there were two gymnasia included within it (Paus. iii. 14, 6), the words yvjivdcria Evpara referred to the Dromos; but, taking into consideration the concluding words, the former hypothesis seems the more probable. But, as I have before said, we must not look for topographical, or other minutiae in any ancient poet. Castor and Pollux were the especial patrons of athletic sports: their statues, according to Pausanias, stood at the entrance to the Dromos, where they were known under the title dperr)pioi, ' the starters, ' hence it is possible that the word ayaXpa may be used significantly by the poet. With regard to this point Colonel Leake's map is at variance with his text, for it represents Pitane as separated from the river by Limnae and the Messoatse. City Walls.--It was the pride and boast of the ancient Spartans that their city needed no bulwarks. What the Irish poet fondly dreams of his O'Briens and O'Donoghoos might be said with sober truth of the kings of Sparta: --0 for the kings of former time! 0 for the pomp that crowned them! When the hearts and the hands of free-born men Were all the ramparts round them. Such was their state when Thucydides wrote in a wellknown passage (b. l. c. 10), which may be freely translated thus: --' If the city of the Lacedaemonians were destroyed, and only its temples and the foundations of its buildings left, remote posterity would greatly doubt whether their power were ever equal to their renown; yet they are actually in occupation of two parts out of five of the Peloponnese, and at the h
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Good. Frontis, 5 maps (1 folding), xiv, 344p. Contemporary blind-stamped orange cloth. 22cm. Covers sound but rather worn (with some splitting, fraying, etc. ) along joints and extremities, and with some soiling, minor spotting and uneven fading. Scattered foxing (heaviest on folding map and title-page). This is almost identical to Clark's 1858 work titled "Peloponnesus: Notes of Study and Travel"). We don't know why the work is differently titled. Here are the other differences we noted: (1) there is no date on the title-page in this copy; (2) the frontis ("St. Paul's Bay, Malta, from the South" from a drawing by James Smith) does not appear in the copy dated 1858--Clark mentions only briefly stopping at Malta; (3) the five maps are bound in separately at various places (facing pages 1, 114, 125, 158, and 215) in the text instead of at the end; (4) there are no publisher's advertisements at the end of this copy; and (5) this copy is slightly taller (21.5cm. versus 21.2 cm.).