Thematic Index of Classics in JStor

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On Certain Ancient Errors in Geographical Orientation

Elmer Truesdell Merrill

Classical Journal. (Nov., 1916) pp. 88-101

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[278 words] road, river, along, route, miles, valley, plain, hill, town, distance, land, mountain, across, coast, village, city, mountains, hills, roads, pass, line, region, bridge, island, southern, water, lake, lies, ground, places

[201 words] greeks, greece, peoples, cities, early, land, strabo, egypt, asia_minor, name, island, city, eastern, region, italy, islands, country, native, inhabitants, geographical, western, tribes, coast, tradition, northern, mediterranean, asia, civilization, romans, population

[194 words] caesar, gaul, gallic, gauls, britain, romans, rhine, germans, holmes, ariovistus, celtic, camp, battle, hannibal, rhone, alps, helvetians, tribes, enipeus, keltic, german, stoffel, ferrero, pharsalus, helvetii, germany, orgetorix, dumnorix, pompey, gallia

[179 words] himself, true, truth, matter, criticism, merely, facts, really, real, passage, attempt, false, claim, accept, words, knowledge, belief, enough, regard, prove, makes, error, simply, wrong, statements, critics, surely, actually, serious, take

[157 words] true, passage, words, merely, matter, position, suppose, regard, name, enough, natural, mention, difficulty, period, prove, having, regarded, himself, except, facts, really, naturally, supposed, definite, makes, assumed, alone, correct, actually, referred

[105 words] period, early, development, influence, forms, developed, earliest, tradition, stage, beginning, became, become, changes, periods, characteristic, process, result, tendency, greater, true, sixth, introduced, throughout, marked, fourth, stages, longer, began, fifth_century, simple

[70 words] collection, information, athens, done, knowledge, received, collections, objects, carried, completed, valuable, investigation, progress, devoted, country, task, service, hope, greece, visit, sent, every, volume, gave, soon, museums, value, german, full, future

[66 words] source, text, sources, passage, information, works, passages, written, version, fragments, name, authors, quoted, tradition, literary, mention, fragment, extant, books, himself, wrote, early, writers, title, commentary, quotations, texts, derived, knowledge, collection

[48 words] eius, erat, ante, inter, anno, inde, fuit, milia, livy, apud, annos, usque, urbem, deinde, erant, quoque, urbis, atque, dies, etiam, nunc, bellum, quem, autem, loco, romae, diem, castra, quia, quibus

[35 words] text, translation, edition, volume, introduction, books, pages, commentary, illustrations, translations, works, index, volumes, useful, page, maps, texts, english, chapter, editions, latin, reader, translated, contains, authors, chapters, excellent, review, scholarship, full

[27 words] passage, kata, tovs, rpos, kara, trov, rovs, kalt, avrov, rapa, katl, tovto, repl, tols, words, aaaa, evov, passages, kacl, follows, evos, otov, rots, avtov, kcal, rept, elval, tovtov, rtov, a7ro

[27 words] moon, stars, aratus, star, earth, planets, astronomical, signs, rising, zodiac, astronomy, ptolemy, comet, venus, sign, manilius, astrology, orion, horoscope, astrological, constellation, setting, pleiades, night, celestial, eclipse, mercury, hours, saturn, constellations

[25 words] latin, english, language, teacher, student, reading, teachers, teaching, pupils, words, vocabulary, knowledge, pupil, translation, method, classics, grammar, schools, training, learning, taught, education, teach, learn, value, instruction, every, high_school, languages, ability

[23 words] passage, atque, virgil, lines, nunc, ovid, ille, vergil, lucan, line, haec, caput, inter, hinc, ipse, terra, passages, silius, sanguine, quem, illa, ante, omnia, arma, mare, manus, tibi, super, caelum, sidera

[20 words] himself, young, ever, whom, every, your, days, things, mind, wrote, spirit, enough, something, true, famous, friend, words, youth, country, poet, knew, high, become, love, take, poor, name, story, master, living

[17 words] philosophy, literary, works, influence, philosophical, writers, tradition, greeks, intellectual, knowledge, ideas, writings, education, philosophers, poets, political, early, plato, period, wrote, written, romans, authors, writing, historians, attitude, moral, philosopher, poetry, himself

[17 words] block, blocks, upper, edge, bottom, face, holes, stone, length, lower, height, base, front, hole, wide, width, cutting, sides, diameter, feet, broken, vertical, corner, high, ends, edges, position, along, flat, slightly

[13 words] room, wall, floor, building, fill, level, trench, pottery, walls, fragments, debris, house, layer, corner, earth, deposit, construction, along, stones, destruction, rooms, built, bedrock, sherds, clay, early, excavated, phase, levels, upper

[12 words] tacitus, nero, domitian, vespasian, galba, suetonius, agricola, emperor, titus, otho, vitellius, suet, trajan, reign, pliny, annals, nerva, syme, histories, dialogus, germania, verginius, flavian, principate, imperial, vindex, tacite, maternus, libertas, tacitean

[12 words] mind, power, true, sense, moral, truth, knowledge, things, idea, ideal, experience, himself, divine, spirit, individual, ideas, natural, conception, expression, reality, real, feeling, vision, attitude, toward, every, intellectual, beauty, something, action

[12 words] forum, temple, building, villa, city, ostia, buildings, palatine, basilica, porta, domus, plan, built, marble, porticus, tufa, trajan, lanciani, house, augustus, arches, curia, augustan, circus, opus, imperial, campus, construction, pavement, pomerium

[11 words] a7ro, kata, icat, rapa, rpos, ical, kcal, wpos, wvos, v7re, column, orib, trov, a7roxxo, atea, evov, otos, rozs, ptov, rpls, tovs

[10 words] plutarch, diodorus, jacoby, demetrius, source, athenaeus, ephorus, story, theopompus, aristotle, plut, lives, fgrhist, sources, tradition, biography, moralia, themistocles, fgrh, dionysius, nepos, apollodorus, fragments, hellanicus, suda, diogenes, wehrli, timaeus, anecdote, historian

[10 words] fort, wall, ditch, information, roman_britain, building, pottery, britain, street, road, rampart, stone, wide, sent, buildings, early, ditches, gate, plan, period, camp, occupation, defences, timber, revealed, coins, forts, clay, directed, romano-british

[10 words] love, himself, fear, anger, passion, moral, violence, suicide, punishment, desire, woman, herself, contrast, suffering, makes, victim, gods, evil, power, pity, shame, fate, situation, grief, cause, violent, behavior, becomes, theme, madness

[9 words] hair, face, body, neck, front, eyes, legs, drapery, heads, lower, shoulder, nose, folds, upper, slightly, forehead, arms, mouth, female, short, shoulders, piece, relief, beard, chiton, broken, ears, behind, feet, wears

[6 words] empedocles, parmenides, heraclitus, aristotle, anaxagoras, diels, things, anaximander, theophrastus, democritus, fragment, earth, fragments, xenophanes, simplicius, kirk, fire, opposites, strife, doctrine, guthrie, aetius, zeno, frag, presocratic, water, philosophy, cosmogony, cosmic, melissus

[6 words] analysis, sources, understanding, individual, information, context, questions, literary, texts, development, role, provide, structure, aspects, early, basic, complex, traditional, range, provides, data, function, significant, patterns, process, useful, pattern, attempt, limited, techniques

[5 words] text, reading, readings, manuscripts, manuscript, edition, error, errors, tradition, scribe, correct, editors, archetype, variants, omitted, emendation, corrected, correction, variant, passages, written, corrections, omission, source, apparatus, corruption, texts, editions, conjecture, copied

[5 words] context, simply, position, hypothesis, argued, text, makes, claim, explain, suggestion, correct, grounds, reasons, alternative, actually, argue, moreover, attempt, surely, obvious, accept, argues, unlikely, enough, issue, sense, passage, presumably, difficulties, plausible

[5 words] wall, building, blocks, stoa, foundation, foundations, temple, corner, level, built, walls, agora, terrace, construction, poros, front, theater, marble, steps, line, plan, along, street, structure, altar, sanctuary, rock, face, block, early

[5 words] word, meaning, sense, words, term, uses, phrase, passage, mean, context, passages, usage, applied, verb, expression, refer, language, refers, meanings, adjective, idea, meant, equivalent, elsewhere, describe, latin, technical, epithet, definition, simply