Illustrations of school classics, arranged and described (1903)
Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948 · London, Macmillan · leaf 106
, in the attitude ofswimming. The Greeks often repre-sent rivers by a bull of the ordinarykind, or with a human head, or some-times by a human figure with horns.Cp. Eur. Ion, 1261 : Si ravpo/xopfpov 6/J.fJ.a Krjcpiaov warpos, and Hor. Od. IV. xiv. 25 : sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus. The… … 86 ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCHOOL CLASSICS 110. Arethusa. Silver coin (decadrachm) of Syracuse, issued at the end of the fifthcentury B.C. In the British Museum. Arethusa was the nymph of the fountain which rose up in the island of Ortygia onwhich Syracuse was founded.The legend of how her watersflowed…
Classical antiquities
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