 That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in...  The idyllia, epigrams, and fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, with ... - Page 137by Theocritus (of Syracuse) - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 pages
...of Adonis, isofabloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass; for the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 796 pages
...of Adonis, isot abloody colour; which the heathen? looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boat in the mountains, out ot which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to... | |
 | John Pinkerton - 1811 - 804 pages
...ftream, at certain feafons of the year, efpecially about the feaft of Adonis, k of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from...death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this ftream rifes. Something like this we faw auually come to pafs : for the... | |
 | 1813 - 442 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody color, which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass ; for the... | |
 | 1815 - 480 pages
...especially about the feast of Adonis, was of the colour of blood, which, he says, was from a sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild- boar in the mountains, out of which this stream arises ; for we found the water extremely red, and observed that... | |
 | 1819 - 308 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass : for the... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy hor of his being. The man mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass ; for the... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar, in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass ; for the... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 354 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass: for the... | |
 | 1824 - 294 pages
...Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the Heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually come to pass; for the... | |
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