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TERRANOVA PAUSANIA, a seaport of Sardinia, in the province of Sassari, situated on the E. coast, 14 m. S.W. of Golfo Aranci, and 72 m. E. of Sassari by rail, and in the innermost recess of the sheltered gulf of Terranova. Pop. (1901) 4348. It occupies the site ...

... of Nauplia with a sea-coast of about 40 m . AUTHORITIES. — Strabo pp. 388 sq. ; Pausanias viti. ; W. M. Leake, Travels in Ike Morea (London, 1830). chs. iii., iv., xi.-xviii., \\iii.-x\vi.; E. Curtius. Peloponneios (Gotha, 1851), i. 153-178; H. F. Torer, Geogr ...

... Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon; Plutarch, Pyrrhus, 30-34; Strabo pp. 373-374; Pausanias ii. 15-24; W. M. Leake, Travels in the Morea (London, 1835), ii. chs. 19-22 ; E. Curtius, Peloponnesos (Gotha, 1851), ii. 350-364; H. F. Tozer, Geography of Greece (Londo ...

... of 9*4 ^tXoStX^os. and she and her husband as 6toi &&X<£ot (Justin xxiv. 2, 3; Pausanias i. 7). See von Prott, Rhtin. Mus. liii. (1898), pp. 460 f. 3. Daughter of Ptolemy III. Euergetcs, sister and wife of Ptolemy IV. Philopator. She seems to be erroneously c ...

... ships could find shelter then as nowadays. The origin of Sulci is attributed by Pausanias to the Carthaginians, and the Punic antiquities found there go to indicate the correctness of his account. It is mentioned in the account of the First Punic War as the pl ...

... whence the tradition itself may have been derived. Further, the statue seen by Pausanias may not have been intended for Telesilla; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her character as wife of Ares and a warlike goddess (the books, however, seem out of pl ...

... er part of the 4th century B.C. by Polyclitus the Younger. The largest known to Pausanias was that of Megalopolis, excavated by the British School at Athens in 1880-91, in which the stage buildings were replaced by the Thersilion, a large council - chamber. Ot ...

... ture, with the forefeet of a horse in addition to the human body and fish tail. Pausanias (ix. 21) gives a detailed description of the ordinary Triton. It is probable that the idea of Triton owes its origin to the Phoenician fish-deities. See Preller, Griechis ...

... c dialect, only scanty fragments remain (Lycurgus, In Leocralem, p. 211, § 107; Pausaniasiv. 14, 5. 15, 2; fragments in T. Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci, ii.). Verrall (Classical Review, July 1896, May 1897) definitely places the lifetime of Tyrtaeus in the midd ...