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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 3-4 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXXIII.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF METALS., CHAP. 11.—AT WHAT PERIOD THE FIRST CROWN OF GOLD WAS
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Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 4 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.), chapter 60 (search)
Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus, commLine 337 (search)
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
IUPPITER OPTIMUS MAXIMUS CAPITOLINUS, AEDES
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Bion or Bion Borysthenites (search)
Bion or Bion Borysthenites
(*Bi/wn), a Scythian philosopher, surnamed BORYSTHENITES, from the town of Oczacovia, Olbia, or Borysthenes, near the mouth of the Dnieper, lived about B. C. 250, but the exact dates of his birth and death are uncertain. Strabo (i. p.15) mentions him as a contemporary of Eratosthenes, who was born B. C. 275. Laertius (4.46, &c.) has preserved an account which Bion himself gave of his parentage to Antigonus Gonatas, king of Macedonia. His father was a freedman, and his mother, Olympia, a Lacedaemonian harlot, and the whole family were sold as slaves, on account of some offence committed by the father.
In consequence of this, Bion fell into the hands of a rhetorician, who made him his heir. Having burnt his patron's library, he went to Athens, and applied himself to philosophy, in the course of which study lie embraced the tenets of almost every sect in succession. First he was an Academic and a disciple of Crates, then a Cynic, afterwards attached to Theodor
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Lentulus
5. L. CORNELIUS TIB. F. SERV. N. LENTULUS, son of the last, consul B. C. 275. (Fasti Cap.