Travels in Crete, Volumen1printed at the Pitt Press by John. W. Parker, Printer to the University, 1837 |
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AELIAN Amnisos Amphimalla ancient city Apokorona APOLLONIUS RHODIUS Aptera Armyró arrived Athens Axos called Candia Captain Maniás cavern celebrated CHAP Christian church Cnossos coins Consul Creta Sacra Crete Cydonia DIODORUS SICULUS district entrance existence feet Gortyna Greece grotto Hághios Hegúmenos Herodotus inhabitants inscription island Kástron Khaniá Kreta Lappa legend LEO ALLATIUS LOBECK Megálo-Kástron Melidhóni mentioned metókhi miles Minoa modern Greek Mohammedans monastery mountains neighbourhood observed Pashá passage PAUSANIAS peasants plain Pliny Pococke Polyrrhenia port Professor Hoeck remains Rhithymna Rhíthymnos river Roman ruins Saint Scylax seen Sfakian shew situated soon speaks STEPHANUS Stephanus of Byzantium Strabo Súdha supposed tion Travels Turkish Turks Tylissos Venetian village Voyage walls word Zeus ἀπὸ γὰρ δὲ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν καὶ κατὰ Κρήτης μὲ μὲν νὰ οἱ πόλις πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Página 68 - event reminds us of the sacred narrative: " When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
Página 176 - The well-known and miraculous transfer of the head of Orpheus^— Whose goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus, to the Lesbian shore—
Página 102 - and such was the docility of the rising generation, that fifteen thousand boys were circumcised and clothed, on the same day with the son of the Fatimite caliph." Thus also the acquisition of Crete by the Saracens of Spain in the ninth century, seems to have
Página 121 - Upon a day he gat him more moneie Than that the persone gat in monthes tweie. And thus with fained flattering and japes, He made the persone, and the peple, his apes.
Página 278 - Of ill-joined sons and daughters born First from the ancient world those giants came, With many a vain exploit, though then renown'd.
Página 1 - The population is nearly six thousand souls, of whom the Christians and Jews amount to about the seventh part. The Venetian city dates from AD 1252, when a colony was sent to occupy it. The object of the foundation was to keep down the Greeks, who had been in arms, and at open war with their Italian lords, almost without
Página 89 - In the Summer a few are to be seen in the water, in deep devotion, up to their chins for hours.
Página 88 - sweet creation of some heart, Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.
Página 212 - tomb remained an object of curiosity to strangers, and of veneration to the Cretans, from an early period till after the age of Constantine. The legal establishment of Christianity, as the paid religion of the state, by that Emperor, did but little in Greece towards extinguishing the ancient superstitions