49 examples of ptolemaic in sentences

Each man can say: "In me rise impulses that ran riot in the veins of Anak, that belonged to Libyan slaves and to the Ptolemaic line.

Milton here uses the old Ptolemaic theory of a succession of solid crystal concentric spheres, in which the heavenly bodies were fixed, and which revolving carried these with them.

He wrote a treatise on the two systems (the Ptolemaic and the Copernican) in the form of Dialogues, of which the preface declares that the purpose is to explain the pros and cons of the two views.

He said that before the decree of 1616 he had held the truth of the Copernican system to be arguable, but since then he had held the Ptolemaic to be true.

Those who maintain that it is so must assume (1) that length of time deprives a universal opinion of its demonstrative force, as otherwise all the old errors which were once universally held to be true would have to be recalled; for instance, the Ptolemaic system would have to be restored, or Catholicism re-established in all Protestant countries.

[Footnote 28: The same who occurs in the Ptolemaic canon (721-709).]

Arsinoë was very willing to go, for she was now beginning to be old enough to feel the impulse of that insatiable and reckless ambition which seemed to form such an essential element in the character of every son and daughter in the whole Ptolemaic line.

"She knew no more of the points of difference," he said, "than of the difference between the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems."

The prevailingly friendly way in which the Ptolemaic rulers treated the Jews naturally led them to take a more favorable attitude toward Greek culture.

Character of the Ptolemaic rulers.

Bevan, Jerusalem under the High Priests, 21-30; Mahaffy, The Ptolemaic Dynasty, Vol.

EDGERTON, WILLIAM F. Notes on Egyptian marriage, chiefly in the Ptolemaic period.

NEWELL, EDWARD T. Standard Ptolemaic silver.

EDGERTON, WILLIAM F. Notes on Egyptian marriage, chiefly in the Ptolemaic period.

NEWELL, EDWARD T. Standard Ptolemaic silver.

SEE Raymond (Wayte) Inc. Standard Ptolemaic silver.

The Ptolemaic-Roman Period IX.

The manufacture of mummies was a regular trade in the Ptolemaic period at least.

This identification of the dead man with the dead god Osiris was later enlarged to include all men, and became in the Ptolemaic period the most characteristic feature of the Egyptian conception of life after death.

It is perhaps significant that the chief sins of the kings of the Fourth dynasty, so execrated by the Egyptian priests in the Ptolemaic period, were sins against the great gods.

THE PTOLEMAIC-ROMAN PERIOD

In the Ptolemaic-Roman period we see the final stage of the Osiris cult.

In the Ptolemaic period, the preparation of all the apparatus of the Osiris burial was divided up into trades.

Even in its most popular form in the Ptolemaic period, a specially instructed class was required, who sold for money the benefits of their knowledge, and men took rank in their security of future life according to their means.

ALFONSINE TABLES, astronomical tables drawn up at Toledo by order of Alfonso X. in 1252 to correct the anomalies in the Ptolemaic tables; they divided the year into 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 16 seconds.

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