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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 8 8 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 23-25 (ed. Frank Gardener Moore, Professor Emeritus in Columbia University) 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
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channel surrounding the upper end of the case, and is discharged by a through e. The bottom of the box is segmental, or hopper-shaped, and is provided with a pipe f and valve for withdrawing any sedimentary deposits which may accumulate. Spawn-Hatcher. Speak′ing-trum′pet. A conical, flaring-mouthed tube employed for intensifying the sound of the human voice, as in giving commands or hailing ships at sea, by firemen, etc. The speaking-trumpet was used by Alexander the Great, 235 B. C. Tradition long reported that the hights of the Caucasus, reaching from the Caspian to the Euxine, were occupied by the armies of Iskender (Alexander), the dread Doolkarnein or Two-Horned, so called from his being the conqueror of East and West. The illusion was said to have been caused by enormous trumpets, placed on the marvelous series of ramparts known in fable as the Wall of Gog and Magog, and craftily disposed so as to sound when the wind blew in certain directions. See Leigh Hunt's