This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...Thee, prosperous Corinth, T for thy race renown'd, Portal of Isthmian Neptune, J shall my strain Forget not. There the Golden Sisters reign Thrice in Olympia. Thessalus, the father of Xenophon, had also won the single foot-race at Olympia (as will appear in the second antistrophe), making with those of his son three ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...Thee, prosperous Corinth, T for thy race renown'd, Portal of Isthmian Neptune, J shall my strain Forget not. There the Golden Sisters reign Thrice in Olympia. Thessalus, the father of Xenophon, had also won the single foot-race at Olympia (as will appear in the second antistrophe), making with those of his son three Olympic victories in that family. f Prosperous Corinth. So Homer calls this city dfvtiov re KopivQov the wealthy Corinth; although, as Pausanias observes, she seems not to have been a sovereign state at the time of the Trojan war, but with Pellene, Sicyon, and others, to have only furnished her contingent to the hundred ships under the command of Agamemnon.--II. ii. 570. Her prosperity no doubt arose from the advantages of her situation between two gulfs communicating with the Egean and Ionian seas, that is, with Italy, Sicily, Asia, and Africa; and affording the only land-passage to the Peloponnese and the northern states of Greece. Many Btories are told of the wealth of the Corinthians: among others that of Cypselus, who destroyed and succeeded to the tyranny of the Bacchiadse, and who sent as an offering to Olympia the full-sized statue of a man made entirely of beaten gold.--Stra. lib. viii. p. 580. For a descripton of Corinth as it was and now is, the reader is referred to the last-cited author, to Pausanias, lib. ii.; Clarice's Trav. vol. iii. p. 730; and Dodwell's Trav. vol. ii. p. 187. + Isthmian Neptune. That Neptune should have been worshipped at a place so indebted to the sea for its prosperity, might be of course expected. We are told, however, that, in a contest for Corinth between From Themis sprung, Eunomia pure Safe Justice and congenial Peace, Basis of states; whose counsels sure With wealth and wisdom bless the world's increase, .
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