 | John Potter - 1808 - 588 pages
...Ceres's invention, went to Eleusis, where the solemnity was kept ; whence this day was called AK>J«5, ie the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began,...upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the dny was called Nun/*, ie a fast. It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpina, Pluto,... | |
 | John Potter - Greece - 1818 - 590 pages
...Ceres's invention, went to Eleusis, where the solemnity was kept ; whence this day was called A»«J«j, ie the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began,...upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called Niiru'*, ie a fast. It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpina,... | |
 | John Potter (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1818 - 590 pages
...this day was called A»«S»«, ie the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began, and lasted tili the seventeenth. Upon the sixteenth they kept a fast,...upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called Noni*, ie a fast. It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpina, Pinto,... | |
 | John Potter - 1840 - 864 pages
...Ceres' invention, went to Eleusis, where the solemnity was kept ; whence this day was called "Aiiios , the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began,...upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called K«TTI«, a fast. It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpine, Pluto,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1841 - 806 pages
...this day was called " AroSoc, the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began, and lasted until the seventeenth. Upon the sixteenth they kept a. fast,...sitting upon the ground in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called tfttOTila, a fast." Potter, Boyd's ed. p. 378 — On the fast« of the ancients,... | |
 | sir John Gardner Wilkinson - Agriculture - 1841 - 532 pages
...called Avotog, 'the ascent.' Upon the 14th the festival began, and lasted till the 17th. Upon the 16th they kept a fast, sitting upon the ground, in token of humiliation : whence the day was called N7l(rT«a, ' the 'fast.' " It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpine,... | |
 | John Gardner Wilkinson - Agriculture - 1841 - 528 pages
...called AvoSof, 'the ascent.' Upon the 14th the festival began, and lasted till the lyth. Upon the 16th they kept a fast, sitting upon the ground, in token of humiliation : whence the day was called NIJO-Ts«a, ' the fast.' " It was usual at this solemnity to pray to Ceres, Proserpine,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Classical antiquities - 1860 - 388 pages
...this day was called "АкоЛч, the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began, and lasted until the seventeenth. Upon the sixteenth they kept a fast,...sitting upon the ground in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called Nf/am'a, а /así." Cf. Potter, Boyd'e ed. p. 378 — Wellmter, De Thesmophorns.... | |
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A»«J«j, ie the ascent. Upon the fourteenth the festival began, and lasted till the seventeenth. Upon the sixteenth they kept a fast, sitting upon the ground, in token of humiliation ; whence the day was called Niiru'*, ie a fast. 