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...S: The origin of the sun will probably be clearer in the Doric form, for the Dorians call him alios, and this name is given to him because when he ri...
...s an anachronism, as that city was called Ephyre before its capture by the Dorians. But V elleius, vol. i. p. 3, well observes, that the poet would na... ...he inhabitants were greatly devoted to the worship of Apollo. See Muller, “Dorians,” vol. i. p. 248. 67 Barbarous tongues. “Various as were the dialec...
...hey were at least seventy thousand. It was now six hundred years since the Dorians had possessed Laconia, and in all that time the face of an enemy ha... ...d and barbarous an act had never been committed in Sparta, since first the Dorians inhabited Peloponnesus; the very enemies in war, they said, were al... ...thought it best to associate it to the Achaean community, and so, although Dorians, they of their own will took upon them the name and citizenship of ...
...guages which overlap one another, for there are Achaeans, brave Eteocretans, Dorians of three fold race, and noble Pelasgi. There is a great town ther...
..., dreadful with the bended yew, And bold Pelasgi boast a native’s due: The Dorians, plumed amid the files of war, 262 The Odyssey of Homer Her foodfu...
...ove fifty years of age, sent by commission; five to summon the Ionians and Dorians in Asia, and the islanders as far as Lesbos and Rhodes; five to vis... ...he constitution. These were as follows. The Heraclidae who joined with the Dorians, and came into Peloponnesus, became a numerous and glorious race in...
...a’ is given to such poems, as representing action. For the same reason the Dorians claim the invention both of T rag- edy and Comedy. The claim to Com... ... and Magnes, belonged to that country . T ragedy too is claimed by certain Dorians of the Peloponnese. In each case they appeal to the evidence of lan...
...ys) that three Hellenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians. And these have been called Three-fold People. 147 Hesiod, The Hom...
...-table by an allusion to Vernon “at work at home upon his Etruscans or his Dorians”; and he paused a moment to let the allusion sink, laughed audibly ...
...ny of them to enlarge very much its territory at home. The colonies of the Dorians resorted chiefly to Italy and Sicily, which, in the times preceding...