Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 261
th of the river Alcan-tara (anc. Acesines), which, flowing into a small butsheltered bay, forms an excellent harbourage for ships. The history of Naxos presents no features of interest,nor does the city seem to have produced any men ofmark. The surrounding country is diversified by several (2S2) 17… … Scopuli Cyclopum. which Polyphemus launched at Ulysses as he made hisescape to sea. So in the satiric drama of Euripides wemay read,*— Ulysses.—I go towards the shore to drive my shipIo mine own land, oer the Sicilian wave.Cyclops.—Not so, if whelming you with this huge stone,I can crush you and…
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