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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 6 6 Browse Search
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Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER I. (search)
e the harbour of Heraclea. Its distance from Heraclea was 24 stadia, and from Thurii about 330.This accords very well with the distance given in the Itinerary of Antoninus. They point out the statue of the Trojan Minerva, which is erected there, as a proof of its colonization by the Trojans. They also relate as a miracle how the statue closed its eyes when the suppliants, who had fled for sanctuary to her shrine, were dragged away by the Ionians after they had taken the city;About B. C. 580. they say that these Ionians came to settle here, when they fled from the yoke of the Lydians, and took the town of the TrojansKramer reads xw/nwn in the text. We have followed the opinion of the French translators, who have rendered it possédée par des Troyens. MSS. give various readings. by force, calling its name Polieum. They show, too, at the present time the statue that closes its eyes. It must, however, require a good courage, not to assert that it appeared to have closed i
Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER II. (search)
erence to the Timao,The ancient Timavus. See book v. chap. i. § 8, page 319. it has already been particularized. Phenomena, similar to these, and such as take place throughout Sicily,The French translation, en divers endroits de I' Italic. Some manuscripts read )Itali/an. We have followed Kramer and Groskurd. are witnessed in the Lipari Islands, and especially in Lipari itself.—These islands are seven in number, the chief of which is Lipari, a colony of the Cnidians.Founded about B. C. 580. It is nearest to Sicily after Thermessa.Thermessa, at present called Vulcano, is doubtless the same mentioned in Pliny's Nat. Hist. lib. iii. § 14, tom. i. p. 164, as Therasia, by the error of the copyist. Paulus Orosius, lib. iv. cap. 20, says that it rose from the bed of the sea, B. C. 571. It is however certain that it was in existence B. C. 427, confer. l'hucyd. lib. iii. § 88, and was for a considerable time called Hiera. It was originally named Meligunis. It was possessed of a fle