"Dia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Cicero's Recantation (palindia). The time for the struggle between the Senatorial party (the Optimates) and the Triumvirs, weakened by their mutual jealousy, seemed to have come. Accordingly Cicero proposed in a full house to reconsider Caesar's Agrarian Law (of 59 B.C.) for the allotment of lands in Campania; while ...
— Helps to Latin Translation at Sight • Edmund Luce
... cut down. They were also styled Chamerim, as we learn from the prophet [15]Zephaniah. Ham was esteemed the Zeus of Greece, and Jupiter of Latium. [16][Greek: Ammous, ho Zeus, Aristotelei.] [17][Greek: Ammoun gar Aiguptioi kaleousi ton Dia.] Plutarch says, that, of all the Egyptian names which seemed to have any correspondence with the Zeus of Greece, Amoun or Ammon was the most peculiar and adequate. He speaks of many people, who were of this ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... expressly mentions this circumstance, when he explains the Origin of the Drama. Paraphaneisas de tes Tragodias kai Komodias, hoi eph' hekateron te poiesen harmontes kata ten oikeian phusin hoi men anti ton Iambon, Komodopoioi egenonto; hoi de anti ton Epon tragodidaskaloi, dia to meizo kai enemotera ta schemata einai tauta ekeinon. ...
— An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients • John Ogilvie
... Dia. O Mr. Pasquin I had like to have forgot, I must give you a hint, as you intend to Satyrize the vicious & the ridiculous, that may be useful to you. that Lady You See there is the greatest Coquet in Town. ...
— The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir • Charles Macklin
... of the showery Constellation of the Olenian she-goat,[87] and Taygete,[88] and the Hyades,[89] and the Bear, and the quarters of the winds, and the harbors fit for ships. By chance, as I was making for Delos, I touched at the coast of the land of Dia,[90] and came up to the shore by {plying} the oars on the right side; and I gave a nimble leap, and lighted upon the wet sand. When the night was past, and the dawn first began to grow red, I arose and ordered {my men} to take in fresh water, and I pointed ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Vol. I, Books I-VII • Publius Ovidius Naso
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