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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1897 · p. 16
The order given is that observed upon the monuments. Rawlinson, Herod., III. 266, note. Attica. A city in Fountain County, Indiana Indianapolis. Population (1890), 2,320. Attica and Bœotia. A nomarchy of modern Greece. Capital, Athens. Area, 2,472 square miles. Population (1889), 257,764. Attic Bee, The. A surname of the Greek tragic poet Sophocles, and also of Plato. Attic Muse, The. An epithet of the Greek historian Xenophon. Atticus, Titus Pompon i us Atticus (at'i-kus), Titus Pompon i us. Born at Rome, 109 в. с.: died March, 32 B. C. A Roman scholar and bookseller, an intimate friend of Cicero, best known from the letters addre ed to him by the great orator. His chief work was "a synchronistic Roman history in the somewhat meagre form of tables, probably with the addition of the contemporary history of foreign peoples which had acquired importance in connection with that of Rome, and, as a supplement, the pedigrees of the chief Roman families" ( Teuffel and Schwabe, Hist. Rom. Lit. (tr. by G. C. W. Warr), I. 269). have been called after his own name, and placed on an equal footing with the Ramnes, Titienses, and Luceres. Tarquin, in mockery of the augur's art, said: - "Tell me mind may be done or not." "It may," replied Attius Na- now by thy auguries whether the thing I have now in my vius, after he had consulted the gods by augury. "Well, then," rejoined the king, "it was in my mind that thou shouldst cut this whetstone in two with this razor." The miles. desisted from his scheme, and learnt to respect the omens. The whetstone and razor were buried under a sacred cov- ing in the Comitium, and a veiled statue of Att[i]us Navius was afterwards set up over the spot. Atticus Herodes, Tiberius Claudius. Born at Marathon, Greece, about 104 A. D.: died Attiwendaronk. See Neuter . about 180. A celebrated Greek rhetorician and public benefactor. He erected at his own ex- pense many public works at Athens, Corinth, Olympia, and elsewhere, and restored several decayed towns in various parts of Greece. Attigny (ä-ten-yē'). A small town in the department of Ardennes, France, situated on the Aisne 22 miles south west of Mezières, im portant in the Me roving i an and Caroling i an periods.
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