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ISYLLUS , a See also:Greek poet, whose name was rediscovered in the course of excavations on the site of the See also:temple of Asclepius at See also:Epidaurus. An inscription was found engraved on See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, consisting of 72 lines of See also:verse (See also:trochaic tetrameters, hexameters, ionics), mainly in the Doric See also:dialect. It is preceded by two lines of See also:prose stating that the author was Isyllus, an Epidaurian, and that it was dedicated to Asclepius and See also:Apollo of Malea. It contains a few See also:political remarks, showing See also:general sympathy with an aristocratic See also:form of See also:government; a self-congratulatory See also:notice of the See also:resolution, passed at the poet's instigation, to arrange a See also:solemn procession in See also:honour of the two gods; a paean (no doubt for use in the procession), chiefly occupied with the genealogical relations of Apollo and Asclepius; a poem of thanks for the assistance rendered to See also:Sparta by Asclepius against See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, when he led an See also:army against Sparta to put down the See also:monarchy. The offer of assistance was made by the See also:god himself to the youthful poet, who had entered the Asclepieum to pray for recovery from illness, and communicated the See also:good See also:news to the Spartans. The Philip referred to is identified with (a) Philip II. of Macedon, who invaded See also:Peloponnesus after the See also:battle of Chaeronea in 338, or (b) with Philip III., who undertook a similar See also:campaign in 218.
Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, who characterizes Isyllus as a " poetaster without See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent and a farcical politician," has written an elaborate See also:treatise on him (Kiessling and Mollendorff, Philosophische Untersuchungen, Heft 9, 1886), containing the See also:text with notes, and essays on the political See also:condition of Peloponnesus and the cult of Asclepius. The inscription was first edited by P. Kavvadias (1885), and by J. F. Baunack in Studien auf dem Gebiete der griechischen and der arischen Spracken (1886).
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