"Meros" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... toutou e acropolis e nun ousa polis en kai to up' auten pros noton malista tetrammenon. tecmerion de. ta gar iera en aute te acropolei kai alln phen esti, kai ta ex pros touto to meros tes poles mallon iorutai, to te tou Dios tou Olympiou, kai to Pythion, kai ta tes Ges, kai to en Limnais Dionysou, ta archaiotera Dionysia te dodecate poieitai en meni Anthesterini. sper kai oi ap' Athenain Ines eti kai nun Page 58 nomixousin. idrutai de kai ...
— The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 • Various
... the representation of his triumph, which was thus: first, his chariot was wholly lined with ivy gathered on the mountain Meros; this for its scarcity, which you know raises the price of everything, and principally of those leaves in India. In this Alexander the Great followed his example at his Indian triumph. The chariot was drawn by elephants joined together, wherein he was imitated by Pompey the Great ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais |
