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Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 2 0 Browse Search
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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
these precautions and is found out, he is liable to pay compensation of a big mythun, a pig, one blanket, and one bead, whatever his means, to the first man he brings ill-luck to by talking to him. Before the British occupation, if the man, for any reason, could not pay the compensation, the other might make a slave of him, by claiming a pig whenever one of his daughters married” （W. R. Head, Haka Chin Customs, Rangoon, 1917, p. 44）. In the Himalayas certain religious ceremonies are prescribed when a person has seen snakes coupling （Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1884, pt. i. p. 101; the nature of the ceremonies is not described）. In Timorlaut, one of the East Indian Islands, it is deemed an omen of great misfortune if a man dreams that he sees snakes coupling （J. G. F. Riedel, De sluik- en kroesharige rassen tusschen Selebes en Papua, The Hague, 1886, p. 285）
Boethius, Consolatio Philosophiae, Book Two , Prosa 7: (search)
M. Tulli: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.), the orator. quodam loco: Cicero, De Republica 6.22, recounting the famous dream of Scipio ( Somnium Scipionis ) on which Macrobius wrote a commentary in the fifth century. B.'s father-in-law Symmachus had arranged for the Macrobius work to be copied under his aegis. Caucasus: Cicero and B. seem to have used this name for different mountains: Cicero the Himalayas, B. the modern Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas. adulta: sc. res publica . Parthis . . . ceterisque . . . gentibus: datives with formidolosa . id locorum: see on 2P4.7. quam Although the first two quam are adverbial, the final is a relative pronoun, antecedent gloria . dilatare: "to broaden, expand." ubi: here virtually of place "to which," for quo . Quid quod: "What o