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Diodorus Siculus, Library, Fragments of Book 9, Chapter 20 (search)
man, and calling upon the gods as witnesses he declared that by word and deed, so far as in him lay, he had brought aid to the fatherland when it was in peril. But since the populace did not perceive the design of Peisistratus, it turned out that Solon, though he spoke the truth, was disregarded. And it is said that Solon also predicted the approaching tyranny to the Athenians in elegiac verseFrag. 10 (Diehl), Edmonds, Elegy and Iambus, I, p. 122. The date was about 562 B.C.: From cloud is born the might of snow and hail And from bright lightning's flash the thunder comes. And from great men a city finds its doom; The people in their ignorance have bowed In slavery to a monarch's single rule. For him who puts too far from shore 'tis hard The harbour later on to make; but now At once one needs must think of everything. And later, when the tyranny was already established, he saidFrag. 8 (Diehl), E
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
raders in oil. The means they used were the mill, such as we now call the Chilian, followed by a lever-press. The stones, bed-plates, and press-frames yet remain in the country to attest the fact. Olives were known in ancient Egypt, and their cultivation was imported thence into Greece. Cecrops (1556 B. C.) is credited with the introduction of the tree, and Aristaeus the Athenian (1450 B. C.) was deified as the inventor of expressing-machinery. They were introduced into Italy about 562 B. C., during the reign of Servius Tullius, which was coeval with that of Nebuchadnezzar, and with the prophecies of Daniel. This was nearly 100 years before Marathon. Oil mills and presses. The Phoenician mill is shown at a in the accompanying cut, which is taken from Thompson's Researches in Palestine. It is drawn from one at Em ela Awamed. The stone wheel had an eye for the shaft, to which the draft animals were attached, and the fruit was mashed by the revolution of the stone in th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
urn so fast as rocket-composition. They are driven similarly to rockets, but solid, and are attached, at short intervals apart, to wooden frames, usually circular, to produce what are called stationary and revolving suns and other similar effects in pyrotechny, giving out a steady and brilliant stream of light while burning. Sun-di′al. A time-measurer, in which a gnomon casts a shadow upon a graduated plate. Said by Pliny to have been invented by Anaximander of Miletus, 550 or 562 B. C. The dial of Ahaz, referred to by Hezekiah, was near two centuries precedent to that of the Grecian. It probably originated with the Chaldees or with the race of Asiatic descent known to us as Egyptians, who were the dwellers in the valley of the Nile at the period of Abraham, and long previous. See dial. Sunk coak. （Carpentry.) A mortise or recess in the scarfed face of a timber, and designed to receive the counterpart coak or tenon of the other timber. See scarf. Sunk′en B<