United States or Namibia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
When the facts are badly dated, or are simultaneous, alphabetical arrangement must be employed; thus we have Dictionaries: dictionaries of institutions, biographical dictionaries, historical encyclopædias, such as the Realencyclopædie of Pauly-Wissowa.
Every object has one λόγος or thing to be said about it; if you say a different λόγος you are speaking of something else. Laert., fragments in Mullach, vol. ii, and the article in Pauly-Wissowa. 'The doctrine also captured Metrocles' sister, Hipparchia. She loved Crates, his words, and his way of life, and paid no attention to any of her suitors, however rich or highborn or handsome.
Few towns in Italy developed as Rome herself developed, expanding from small beginnings in a slow continuous growth which was governed by convenience and opportunism and untouched by any new birth or systematic reconstruction. See Mommsen, Gesamm. Schriften v. 203; Nissen, Ital. Landeskunde ii. 27; Kornemann in Pauly-Wissowa, Encycl. iv. 520 foll.
We have, in short, no good reason to believe that Babylon, in any form or sense whatever, covered at any time this large area. So Baumstark, art. Babylon in Pauly-Wissowa, ii. 2696. Here, on the left bank of the Euphrates, are vast city-walls, once five or six miles long.
Word Of The Day