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** Chrysippus, Greek philosopher from Soloi who was the principal systematiser of stoic philosophy ( b. c. 280 BC )
* Chrysippus, Greek philosopher from Soloi who was the principal systematiser of Stoic philosophy ( b. c. 280 BC )
Soli or Soloi () is an ancient Greek city in the island of Cyprus, located south-west of Morphou and on the coast in the gulf of Morphou and dates back to about the 6th century BC.
), Pausanias ( c. 150 AD ), Athenaeus ( c. 200 AD ), Censorinus ( 3rd century AD ), and an anonymous Latin commentator on the Greek poem Phaenomena by Aratus of Soloi ( ca.
Soloi and .
Next Solon sailed to Cyprus, where he oversaw the construction of a new capital for a local king, in gratitude for which the king named it Soloi.
Originally, Soloi was located, in a much constricted geographical location.
Soloi was one of the ten city-kingdoms into which Cyprus was divided at the time.
* Hiero of Soloi, who was sent by Alexander to circumnavigate the Arabian peninsula, and went as far as the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The ten kingdoms listed by an inscription of Esarhaddon in 673 – 2 BCE have been identified as Soloi, Salamis, Paphos, Kourion, Amathus and Kition on the coast, and Tamassos, Ledrai, Idalion and Chytroi in the interior of the island.
They have been found, among other locations, at Tamassos, Soloi, Patriki and Trachonas.
Soloi surrendered after a five-month siege.
Indeed, king Pnytagoras of Salamis, Androcles of Amathus, and Pasikratis of Soloi, took a personal part in the siege of Tyre.
had and small
On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.
) Rumor had it he slipped two small rocks under each victim's head as a sort of trademark.
The bars were marked as Walter had marked them in a small black book kept in a nearly secret drawer.
He used the blanket for late morning naps when hosts of the night had gone off to jobs and proved reluctant to leave him in their small rooms with their few possessions.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.
We had been walking quite briskly, for despite your being so small and me so tall, your stride in those days could easily match mine.
He had a small mouth with deep furrows on either side, a large flat nose, and penetrating blue eyes.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Then followed a period in which he wrote reviews for The New York Times Book Review, The Commonweal, Commentary, had a small piece in Partisan Review, and moved on to Hudson, The Village Voice, and Exodus.
Berto's The Sky Is Red had been a small masterpiece and in its special way the best book to come out of the war.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
The small shaft of blue had drifted down and come to rest at his feet.
at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.
Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.
If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.
The city had recently given him a small salary, but it was not enough to supply even necessities.
The dog refused to be scared off, so Kahler had purchased some small firecrackers.
The colony had been small until the Spanish Inquisition of 1492 drove many Jews into Rome.
Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.
An aircraft with a load of small nuclear weapons could very conceivably be given a mission to suppress all trains operating within a specified geographic area of Russia -- provided that we had used some of our ICBMs to degrade Russia's air defenses before our bombers got there.
had and temple
On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.
Into a little well before the temple he dropped a hundred-yen coin and then he had an urge to sound the bell before the temple, to take hold of the rope and crash it against the circle of bronze ; ;
Acesius was the epithet of Apollo worshipped in Elis, where he had a temple in the agora.
Apollo Vindonnus had a temple at Essarois, near Châtillon-sur-Seine in Burgundy.
Artemis Daphnaia, who had her temple among the Lacedemonians, at a place called Hypsoi in Antiquity, on the slopes of Mount Cnacadion near the Spartan frontier, had her own sacred laurel trees.
His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.
great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.
After the taking of Troy, it is said he rushed into the temple of Athena, where Cassandra had taken refuge, and was embracing the statue of the goddess in supplication.
Whether true or not, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant from her temple.
Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.
However, the temple of Ares to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and re-sited in the Agora in Augustus's time, and statues known to derive from Alcamenes ' statue show the god in a breastplate, so the identification of Alcamenes ' Ares with the Ares Borghese is not secure.
The Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had Baltic amber among his burial goods, and amber was sent from the North Sea to the temple of Apollo at Delphi as an offering.
Although Ares received occasional sacrifice from armies going to war, the god had a formal temple and cult at only a few sites.
The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.
The Samaritans of Samaria ( see map at Iudaea Province ), had their temple on Mount Gerizim, and along with some other differences, see Samaritanism, were in conflict with Jews of Judea and Galilee and other regions who had their Temple in Jerusalem and practiced Judaism.
During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).
Chapter 4 laments the ruin and desolation that had come upon the city and temple, but traces it only to the people's sins.
The Roman veterans who had been settled there mistreated the locals and a temple to the former emperor Claudius had been erected there at local expense, making the city a focus for resentment.
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