Games held by the Greeks at Olympia, in Elis, every fourth year, in the month of July. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894OlympusOlympian Jove A B C D E F…
One of a wicked disposition; a companion of the wicked. (See Judges xix. 22.) “Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial, they knew not the Lord.” - 1 Samuel ii. 12. Source: Dictionary of…
A sceptic. Pyrrho was the founder of the sceptical school of philosophy. He was a native of Elis, in Peloponnesos. Blessed be the day I'scaped the wrangling crew From Pyrrho's maze and…
List of Delegates to the Convention.Appendix.Corresponding Members.Amelia A. Bowen, Woodstock, Conn.Harriet A. Burleigh, Stonington, Conn.Maria M. Newhall, Lynn, Mass.C. Blackford…
Hereward the Wake, in the time of William the Conqueror. The “Camp of Refuge” was established in the Isle of Ely, and the Earl of Morcar joined it in 1071. It was blockaded for three…
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The stables of Augeas, King of Elis, in Greece. In these stables he had kept 3,000 oxen, and the stalls had not been cleansed for thirty years. When Hercules was appointed to cleanse these…
(Hebrew). The worthless or lawléss one, i.e. the devil. Milton, in his pandemonium, makes him a very high and distinguished prince of darkness. (Paradise Lost.) “What concord hath Christ…
(3 syl.). A king of Elis, noted for his arrogancè and impiety. He wished to be called a god, and to receive divine honour from his subjects. To imitate Jove's thunder he used to drive his…
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