the practice of eliminating the bissextile day every 134 years to adjust the date of the new moon.Cf. proemptosis. neomenia 1.the time of the new moon or the beginning of the month. 2.a heathen festival at the time of the new moon. ...
The 19th -century Orkney folklorist, Walter Traill Dennison, informs us of the nature of the Orcadian wise-woman, or spae-wife, who was said to possess:“…all the supernatural wisdom, some of the supernatural power, without any of the malevolent spirit of witches.” Expounding her qualities...
And the subject matter of the Sinai fragments is really intriguing. To begin with we have Aphrodite traveling over Earth, Sky, Sea and even daring to descend into the Underworld in search of Dionysos. This creates a nice parallel with Dionysos’ ownkatabasisto recover the soul of his mother ...
It may be a clerical error for Demades and the maxim is quite in the spirit of his writings I have not however been able to find any corresponding passage either in the ‘Fragments’ (C. MULLER, _Orat. Att._, II. 441) nor in the Supplements collected by DIETZ (_Rhein. Mus._, ...
to the story of the birth of Samuel in 1 Samuel 1 is established. His mother is also called Anna (or Hannah), and his birth also occurs only after a long period of childlessness and in response to the mother’s lament; in addition, both Annas promise to devote their child to the ...
Themistocles, on one hand held by his contemporaries to be the “wisest of the Hellenes” (Herodotus), on the other notorious for his non-achievement in the field of music. Plutarch preserves a reference by Ion of Chios to Themistocles' abstention from playing the lyre and resulting disgra...
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit. "Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at the time...
Opposite to that is the 3rd house, which is called Goddess, and this is the house where the Moon has her joy. The two benefic planets, Venus and Jupiter, are associated with the two good houses, which are the house of Good Fortune and the house of Good Spirit, respectively. Conversely...
Thus, in relation to the sublunary sphere, "heaven" means efficient cause, "the earth" matter, and "the waters" on the face of which the Spirit of God moved, the accidents of matter. But the reader has probably had already far too much of these absurdities, which, however, when due ...
But there is great spirit and great power in what Burton says when he writes from his own mind." ---Ibid. vol. ii. p. 325. "It will be no detraction from the powers of Milton's original genius and invention, to remark, that he seems to have borrowed the subject of L'Allegro ...