 | 1824 - 456 Seiten
...Assus, opposite to Molivo, (the ancient Methymna) in Mitylene, afford numerous remains, furnishing perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek 'city that anywhere exists — temples, sculptured figures, walls and towers, a gate in complete preservation, a cemetery with... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1841 - 1052 Seiten
...leading through them to the gate. Some of these sarcophagi arc of gigantic dimensions. The whole gives, perhaps, the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists." (Lfake't Asia Minor, p. 128.) ASSYK, a town of Hindostan, prov. Berar, In the Nizam's dom.. 28 m. N.... | |
 | John Howard Marsden - 1864 - 56 Seiten
...days having been employed by Captain Leake in satisfying himself as to the site of the ancient Citium of Cyprus, the Chittim mentioned in Scripture. They...during the remainder of his long life. Before the school- boy reminiscences of Homer and Herodotus had been effaced from his mind, he found himself treading... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 920 Seiten
...Greek. Fellows found there il no trace of tlie Romans." I .i-.ikr says that •• the whule gives perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists." The remains are numerous and remarkably well preserved, partly because many of the buildings were of... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1876 - 296 Seiten
...13:21; 24: 17. ...p ch.2:l¡ 1 Сот. 15 : B. mains, which are numerou* and well-preserved, may be had "perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists." From its citadel it commanded a glorious view, and must have presented a splendid appearance from the... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - 1876 - 266 Seiten
...: 17. . . . p ch. 2 : 1 ; 1 Cor. 16 : 8. mains, which are numerou. and well-preserved, may be had " perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists." From its citadel it commanded a glorious view, and must have presented a splendid appearance from the... | |
 | William Sandys W. Vaux - 1877 - 204 Seiten
...however, it was used, as in Juv. x. 1 70. Colonel Leake observes of the ruins of Assos, "The whole gives, perhaps, the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists " (Asia Minor, p. 128). See also RP Pullan, "Ruins of Asia Minor," p. 19. 3 See Dr. Colquhoun " On... | |
 | Archaeological Institute of America - 1880 - 204 Seiten
...Assos fully warrant the opinion of that eminent authority, Colonel Leake, who thinks that they give perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists. Those of the town are thrown together in the wildest disorder, — antae, columns, and their members... | |
 | Archaeological Institute of America - 1880 - 236 Seiten
...Assos fully warrant the opinion of that eminent authority, Colonel Leake, who thinks that they give perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists. Those of the town are thrown together in the wildest disorder, — antae, columns, and their members... | |
 | Archaeological Institute of America - 1880 - 206 Seiten
...Assos fully warrant the opinion of that eminent authority, Colonel Leake, who thinks that they give perhaps the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists. Those of the town are thrown together in the wildest disorder, — antae, columns, and their members... | |
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... upon the plateau, had not thus been swept away. The remains of coarser materials are, however, themselves of great extent, and are sufficiently important to insure the attention of science. The ruins of Assos fully warrant the opinion of that eminent... 
