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Browsing named entities in E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill). You can also browse the collection for Libya (Libya) or search for Libya (Libya) in all documents.

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E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 7 (search)
btless the ferula asafoetida, the exuded juice of which is still widely used as an antispasmodic. It held a prominent place among the products and exports of Cyrenaica, and is represented upon coins of the country. Pliny notes, however, that in his time it had ceased to he produced there, and our supply comes from Persia and the East Indies. Cyrenis: Cyrenae (Gr. *kurh/nh) was the capital of the district of Libya, called Cyrenaica, that bordered upon the Syrtis major. It was founded, according to tradition, about the middle of the seventh century B.C., by Battus, otherwise called Aristotle, a Greek from the island of Thera, and attained great reputation as a centre of trade, and as the birthplace of Eratosthenes, Aristippus, and Callimachus. oraclum Iovis: the Egyptian deity Ammon, or Hammon, originally worshipped in Thebes
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 64 (search)
n *)attikai/, foitw=sai de\ e)s to\n *parnasso\n para\ e)/tos au)tai/ te kai\ ai( gunai=kes *delfw=n a)/gousin o)/rgia *dionu/sw| . Mavors: antique and poetic form for Mars. rapidi Tritonis hera: i.e. Athena, called *tritoge/neia by Hom. Il. 8.39, etc., probably from the river Triton in Boeotia (Strab. IX. 407; Paus. 9.33.7), rather than from the lake, or river, Triton in Libya (Hdt. 4.178; Plin. NH 5.28). Rhamnusia virgo: i.e. Nemesis, so called from her famous temple at Rhamnus in Attica; cf. Catul. 66.71; Catul. 68.77; Ov. Met. 3.406 adsensit precibus Rhamnusia iustis ; Stat. Silv. 3.5.5 audiat infesto licet hoc Rhamnusia vultu . Ares and Athena often encourage men to battle in the Iliad, but this function on the part