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Two magistrates of ancient Rome, who held office at first for five years and then eighteen months, whose duty it was to keep a register of the citizens, guard the public morals, collect the public revenue, and superintend the public property.
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A savage race living between Pelion and Ossa, in Thessaly, and conceived of at length by Pindar as half men and half horses, treated as embodying the relation between the spiritual and the animal in man and nature, in all of whom the animal prevails over the spiritual except in Chiron, who therefore figures as the trainer of the heroes of Greece; in the mythology they figure as the progeny of Centaurus, son of Ixion and the cloud, their mothers being mares.
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Includes a group of feudatory States lying between Rajputana in the N. and Central Provinces in the S.
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States partly British and partly native, occupying the N. of the Deccan, and lying between the Nerbudda and the Godavary.
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One of the Cyclades, a small island 13 m. by 8 m., yields fruits; was the birthplace of Simonides and Bacchylides.
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The largest of the Ionian Islands, 30 m. long, the ancient Samos; yields grapes and olive oil.
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King of Thessaly, who having involuntarily killed his wife Procris, in despair put himself to death with the same weapon.
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The largest of S. Moluccas; yields sago, which is chiefly cultivated and largely exported.
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The three-headed or three-throated monster that guarded the entrance to the nether world of Pluto, could be soothed by music, and tempted by honey, only Hercules overcame him by sheer strength, dragging him by neck and crop to the upper world.
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The Latin name for Demeter; also the name of one of the asteroids, the first discovered, by Piazzi, in 1801.
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