Ward, John, 1832-1912, Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London : J. Murray · leaf 457
with long hair and laurel-wreath and a lyre with fillet in incusesquare, and 656, smaller, has similar devices.Fourth century work. Lesbos is now known as Mjtilene; it isa beautiful island still, and were it onlyproperly cultivated would recover its ancientname for fertility. It produced many… … PERdAMON Safpho. (Museo Nazionale, Rome.) This was a very old place, said to havebeen colonised from Epidauros, and wasdescribed by Xenophon as ancient in his time. It however did not becomevery famous bill after the death of Alexander. We have no coins of Pergamon till 263 B.C., when Eumenes L…
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