 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...grass, they offered her a ram, after the victim had been led three times round the field. Ceres was represented with a garland of ears of corn on her...in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. She appears as a countrywoman mounted on the back of an ox, and carrying a basket on her left arm, and... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1825 - 848 pages
...ram, after the victim had been led three times round the field. Ceres was represented with a gar land of ears of corn on her head, holding in one hand a...in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. She appears as a country-woman mounted on the back oi an ox, and carrying a basket on her left arm, and... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1825 - 910 pages
...gar-jspired with Piso against Nero. Tacit. An. 15. land of ears of corn on her head, bolding in c. 50. one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her- She appears as a country-woman mounted on the back ot an ox, and carrying a basket on her left arm, and... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 938 pages
...grass they offered her a ram , after the victim had been led three times roue the field. Ceres was represented with a garland of ears of corn on her...in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. She appears as a country-woman mounted on the baak of an ox, and carrying a basket on her left arm, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Classical dictionaries - 1827 - 700 pages
...a dog lying down, as the crest of a Roman helmet : by the modems, as an armed and watchful female, holding in one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a lance ; or by a crane holding in one of its feet a stone : but Vigilance is more generally represented... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 576 pages
...SUPERSTITION is represented by the figure of a woman of a mature age, dressed in dark-coloured garments, and holding in one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a circle of stars, and the signs of the planets, which she seems to be contemplating with an air of inquietude.... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 520 pages
...SUPERSTITION is represented by the figure of a woman of a mature age, dressed in dark-coloured garments, and holding in one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a circle of stars, and the signs of the planets, which she seems to be contemplating with an air of inquietude.... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...olfering of (mil-, iuid the hlood of the victims was shed in the waters of the fountain. Ceres was represented with a garland of ears of corn on her...and in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. CEEEssUX, a place of Bttotia. CEEET^E, a people of Crete. CEHtALta ANtUtUs, a cousul elect, who wished... | |
 | P. Austin Nuttall - Archaeology - 1840 - 722 pages
...corn nnd the harvest, is represented with ears of corn on her head. She holds in one hand a ligb ted torch, and in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. She often appears as a countrywoman mounted on ¡m ox, carrying a hasket on her left arm, and holding a... | |
 | John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...erected in the Circus Maximus, and an annual festival celebrated to her honour. (See CEIIKAMA.) She was represented with a garland of ears of corn on her head, holding in one hand a lighted torch, in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. CEKETAXI, a people of Hispania Tarraconensis, at the... | |
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Ceres was represented with a garland of ears of corn on her head, holding in one hand a lighted torch, and in the other a poppy, which was sacred to her. 
