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... Poetica Astronomica , 2.16 . ) Aquilo . The Latin name for the north wind . When personified as a god by the Romans , this wind was often called by his Greek name , Boreas . Arabus . A son of Hermaon and Thronia , daughter of Belus ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.16 . ) Aquilo . The Latin name for the north wind . When personified as a god by the Romans , this wind was often called by his Greek name , Boreas . Arabus . A son of Hermaon and Thronia , daughter of Belus ...
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... Poetica Astronomica , 2.20 . ) Arimaspians or Arimaspi . A fabulous one - eyed people . According to Herodotus , as well as later writers , the Arimaspians lived beyond the Issedones , who lived beyond the Scythians . Their country ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.20 . ) Arimaspians or Arimaspi . A fabulous one - eyed people . According to Herodotus , as well as later writers , the Arimaspians lived beyond the Issedones , who lived beyond the Scythians . Their country ...
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... Poetica Astronomica , 2.23-24 . ] E. The third labor that Eurystheus exacted of Heracles was the capture alive of the Cerynitian hind . This golden - homed deer ( which some call a stag , others a doe ) was sacred to Artemis . It roamed ...
... Poetica Astronomica , 2.23-24 . ] E. The third labor that Eurystheus exacted of Heracles was the capture alive of the Cerynitian hind . This golden - homed deer ( which some call a stag , others a doe ) was sacred to Artemis . It roamed ...
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