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... golden age of Saturn is called the age of Rhea . 514 So Jove usurping reign'd . Jupiter , the most powerful of all the gods of the ancients . According to the opinion of 514 - Corybantes . mythologists , Jupiter was saved from 23.
... golden age of Saturn is called the age of Rhea . 514 So Jove usurping reign'd . Jupiter , the most powerful of all the gods of the ancients . According to the opinion of 514 - Corybantes . mythologists , Jupiter was saved from 23.
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... golden head -painted upon the crest of his helmet , to render him terrible to his enemies . 581 Begirt with British and Armoric knights . 1 Armorica , cities of Celtic Gaul , famous for the warlike , rebellious and inconstant ...
... golden head -painted upon the crest of his helmet , to render him terrible to his enemies . 581 Begirt with British and Armoric knights . 1 Armorica , cities of Celtic Gaul , famous for the warlike , rebellious and inconstant ...
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... golden architrave . 717 - The moulding next above the capital of a column ; also , the principal beam of a building . not Babylon . - A city on the Euphrates , built by Nimrod or Belus , the founder of the Assyrian monarchy , and became ...
... golden architrave . 717 - The moulding next above the capital of a column ; also , the principal beam of a building . not Babylon . - A city on the Euphrates , built by Nimrod or Belus , the founder of the Assyrian monarchy , and became ...
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... means a council chamber within the Pandemonian . 796 A thousand demi - gods on golden seats . Those gods , among the heathen , who partook of human nature , as Hercules , & c . END OF FIRST BOOK . BOOK II . 2 Out - shone the wealth of 40.
... means a council chamber within the Pandemonian . 796 A thousand demi - gods on golden seats . Those gods , among the heathen , who partook of human nature , as Hercules , & c . END OF FIRST BOOK . BOOK II . 2 Out - shone the wealth of 40.
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... golden sands . They say , that the neighhouring inhab- itants have but one eye , in the middle of the forehead ; and wage continual war against the griffins , monstrous animals that collect the gold of the rivers . 964 Orcus and Ades ...
... golden sands . They say , that the neighhouring inhab- itants have but one eye , in the middle of the forehead ; and wage continual war against the griffins , monstrous animals that collect the gold of the rivers . 964 Orcus and Ades ...
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