"Epirus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1. iterata legatione by a second embassy. 3. fatigaretur was importuned. 3-4. non tam ... inductus. Pyrrhus aimed at founding a western Grecian Empire in Italy and Sicily. 7-9. patruo suo Alexandro ... fuerant. Alexander of Epirus had almost succeeded in uniting the whole of Magna Graecia (332-326 B.C.) when he was cut off by the hand of an assassin. 9. magno Alexandro. Pyrrhus was acknowledged to be the first general of the school of Alexander, and Hannibal ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... rugged Epirus laugh; And Thessaly spreads far her golden charms. Hidden beneath her present waves of woe, Methinks I look on Hellas, ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
... Epirus, on setting off against the Romans, received equal satisfaction, the Pythia telling him (in Latin) what ...
— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum
... the costume of the inhabitants of Epirus; the fine white silk dress, which inclosed the slim, beautifully shaped form, looked like freshly fallen snow, and the embroidered flowers on her broad belt could hardly be distinguished from ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... youngest son of the Prince of Epirus, who, with the other Grecian princes, had, at the commencement of the reign of Amurath the Second, in vain resisted the progress of the Turkish arms in Europe. The Prince of Epirus had obtained peace by yielding his four ...
— The Rise of Iskander • Benjamin Disraeli
... was in Epirus a savage king who had a very fair daughter. He had named this daughter Persephone, naming her thus to show that she was held as fast by him as that other Persephone was held who ruled in the Underworld. No man might see her, and no man might wed her. But ...
— The Golden Fleece and the Heroes who Lived Before Achilles • Padraic Colum
... Great, son of Philip of Macedon and Olympias, daughter of Neoptolemus of Epirus, was born at Pella, 356 B.C. His mind was formed chiefly by Aristotle, who instructed him in every branch of human learning, especially in the art of government. Alexander was sixteen years of age when his father marched against Byzantium, and left the ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... chief city of the East, Seleucia, and Anazarbus, the most famous town in Cilicia. Who could calculate the numbers of those who were thereby destroyed? To these cities we may add Ibora, Amasea (the chief city of Pontus), Polybotus in Phrygia (called Polymede by the Pisidians), Lychnidus in Epirus, and Corinth, cities which from ancient times had been thickly populated. All these cities were overthrown at that time by an earthquake, during which nearly all their inhabitants perished. Afterwards the plague (which I have spoken of before) ...
— The Secret History of the Court of Justinian • Procopius
... homes, so eager in soliciting aid and intervention from the infidel in their own disputes. The several principalities of the circumference, Servia, Bosnia, Wallachia, the Morea, and the islands, varying in nationality and in religion, were attacked separately, and made no joint defence. In Epirus, Scanderberg, once a renegade, then in communion with Rome, drawing his supplies from the opposite coast of Apulia, which his sentinels on Cape Linguetta could see at sunrise, maintained himself for many years victoriously, knowing that his country would perish with him. John ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... luxuries, sausage from Epirus, cherries from the Pontus, oysters from England, were greeted with a studied hostility by those who profited from the business of making ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... that "the Irish greyhounds are of a very ancient race. They were called by the ancients, dogs of Epirus, and Albanian dogs. Pliny gives an account of a combat between one of these dogs, first with a lion, and then with an elephant. In France they are so rare, that I never saw above one of them, which appeared, when sitting, to be about ...
— Anecdotes of Dogs • Edward Jesse
... was first the rude Hellenes who overran the Pelasgians. And again, long after that, there was another descent of fierce northern barbarians,—the Dorians from Epirus,—who, when they took possession of the Peloponnesus and became the Spartans, infused that vigorous strain without which the history of Greece might have been a very tame affair. In the British Isles it was the Picts and Scots, who would ...
— A Short History of Spain • Mary Platt Parmele |
