hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Pausanias, Description of Greece 28 0 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 28 0 Browse Search
Lysias, Speeches 26 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30 4 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 4 0 Browse Search
Hyperides, Speeches 4 0 Browse Search
Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 2 0 Browse Search
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) 2 0 Browse Search
Isocrates, Speeches (ed. George Norlin) 2 0 Browse Search
Lysias, Speeches 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

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

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill), Poem 66 (search)
B.C.), king of Egypt, had for her husband's safety vowed to the gods a lock of her hair, when, shortly after his accession to the throne and marriage, the king was setting out on an expedition against Syria. Upon his safe return the vow was paid, and the tress deposited in the temple of the deified Arsinoe on the promontory of Zephyrion. Next morning, however, it had disappeared; but the anger of the king was appeased by the court astronomer, Conon, who said that he had descried it among the stars, where it must have been placed by divine agency. To verify his words Conon pointed out the hitherto undistinguished minor constellation which is now known as Coma Berenices.—Date, about 59 B.C. (cf. introductory note to c. 65). omnia qui: the antecedent clause begins in v. 7. dispexit: descried; as distinguishing in the darkness, or amid the multitude of