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Title: Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747
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Publisher: Edinburgh Stirling & Slade
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he manner of adorning trophies, was hanging up all sorts ofarms taken from the enemy, according to Euripides ^ : •T^e-teiiit t^^6iren HcttTtu^iei)) i^avTa ruv To^lfAiOtv, AU soi-ts of anns, that frotn the foe he took,He hung about the trophy which he raisd. Hence also Juvenal ^, speaking of the Roman triumphal arches: Jiellorum exuvicc, truncis nffixa tropais Lorica, etfracta de casside buccida pendens, lCt curtum temonejugu7n, victceque triremis Aplustrc. • The spoils of war brought to Feretrian Jovc, An empty coat of armour hung above The conqurors chariot, and in triumph bornc, A streamer from a boarded galley torn, A chap-fairn beaver loosely hanging by The cloven helm. Drysen. To these they usually added the names of the god they were de- 2 Plutarchus Institut. Laconic. Parallclis, Phumutus. Idem Marcelio, * l*bavorinis. b Phavorinus. f Cassandra, v. 1328. Aristophanis Scholiastes Pluto, S Ilcraclid. v. 786, d Pausonios Laconicis, Pluturchus ^ Satir. x. v, 133. li r./.y/.//J^
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EJJnhur.,h ruhli.h.d hj J^ou, SMuy ^ Sl.ulr hV8. O/ thc Mililari/ Jjairs of GreecC. 11:; dicatcd to, of llic conqiiciors also, and of those overcomc by iheniwitli an account of ali the spoils, and other remarkable occurrcn-ces in the war: this inscription vvas called l7rif^x(pii, or frtf^xfiftx^and was frequently engraved, whencc Lucian saith e7r) ru r^oTexUifKoXx^xi sometimes vvritten vvith ink, whence Odiryades, theJLaceda^nionian, just surviving his victory over the Argians, caus-cd a trophy to be erected, upon which, being supported by hisspear, hc inscribed vvith his own blood, instead of hik, Att T^o- iTxm^ik) . The spoils were hung upon the trunk of a tree; the olive wasirequently put to this use, being the emblem of peace, which isone of ihe consequents of victory ; several olher trees also had thesame honour, especially the oak, as being consecrated to Jupiter,who had a peculiar right to these respects; there is frequent men-tion of this in the poets. Sidonius J; Curva scniit

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