In fact the ancient Greek word for oak, 'drys', was also the word for tree. The two main commonly found in the region are the evergreen holm oak and the deciduous Valonian. Both range in size from thick low shrub (forming the basis of the modern-day Meditteranean scrub forests) to...
Grant me to overwhelm the Greeks with their mad bark : the thought of my children [the Boreades on the Argo] moves me not, only do thou quench these threats of mortal man, while still the shores of Thesally and as yet no other lands have seen their sails.’ He ceased speaking: ...
Theophrastus (Hist. Plant, i. 1, 搂 11) speaks of the fiv/cns and the vhvov as having neither root, stem (icavkos) branch, bud, leaf, flower, nor fruit, neither again bark, pith, fibies, nor veins; but in i. 5, 搂3, he speaks of the stem (KavXo'i) of the fjLi>KT]...
Another common word to describe thiseuphoriaisγηθοσύνη(or the verbγηθέω), usually in instances where the gods are involved. In Theognis, 9–10, for example, the wide Earth and the deep Sea laugh and rejoice at the birth of Apollo ἐγέλασσεδὲ Γαῖ...
Mars Alator is attested in Roman Britain by an inscription found on an altar at South Shields, and a silver-gilt votive plaque that was part of the Barkway hoard from Hertfordshire. Alator has been interpreted variously as "Huntsman" or "Cherisher". Mars Albiorix appears in an inscripti...
the new D-A-F-C tuning became identical to the first four strings of the traditional guitar. The bouzouki is played with a plectrum (pena or pick), which, in older times, would have been made from a bird’s feather, a horn or the bark of a cherry tree. Greek bouzouki is different...
to, towards (adductor) When used as a prefix the d is sometimes changed to the first consonant of the following word, e.g., acclimate, afferent, assimilate; As a suffix it means towards the part of the body indicated by word to which it is suffixed, e.g., cephalad, towards the ...
The word began with the Roman word for the sun and their god of the sun, who was called Sol. Solar energy is a safe kind of energy. It doesn't make pollution or have dangerous leftovers. That is why scientists and investors are experimenting with ways of harnessing(治理利用)the sun to...
vicious and would kill her, but if she waited until noontime, the sheep would go the shade on the other side of the field and sleep at which point she could pick the wool that stuck to the branches and bark of the trees. Psyche did so and Aphrodite was even more outraged at her ...
Theophrastus (Hist. Plant, i. 1, 搂 11) speaks of the fiv/cns and the vhvov as having neither root, stem (icavkos) branch, bud, leaf, flower, nor fruit, neither again bark, pith, fibies, nor veins; but in i. 5, 搂3, he speaks of the stem (KavXo'i) of the fjLi>KT]...