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- a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered
- (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva
How To Use Pallas In A Sentence
- However, the ecoregion harbors two globally threatened species, the Bengal florican and the lesser florican (Eupodotis indica), as well as the threatened Pallas's fish-eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus) and swamp francolin (Francolinus gularis). Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
- This other Pallas — the word itself can be accented to have a feminine or masculine meaning in our language, but here it is close to the Latin word virago, which means ‘strong virgin’ — had been killed in a sham fight with Athena. Ilium
- Arachne, a most industrious needleworker, had the audacity to contest against Pallas, the goddess of the art of weaving. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
- Iuno, tene; tuque o puppem ne desere, Pallas: nunc patrui nunc flecte minas. cessere ratemque accepere mari. per quot discrimina rerum expedior! subita cur pulcher harundine crines velat Hylas? unde urna umeris niueosque per artus caeruleae vestes? unde haec tibi volnera, Pollux? quantus io tumidis taurorum e naribus ignis! tollunt se galeae sulcisque ex omnibus hastae et iam iamque umeri. quem circum vellera Martem aspicio? quaenam aligeris secat anguibus auras caede madens? quos ense ferit? miser eripe parvos, Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
- This latter alternative, which was first propounded by Pallas , seems by far the most probable.
- Artificial raising of Pallas pit vipers had been studied with introducing wild viper and imitating natural conditions on Dahailin Forest Bureau of Heilongjiang Province from 1996-1998.
- Then wise Pallas is struck down by the dagger of error, and the charming Pierides are smitten by the truculent tyranny of madness. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
- Agkistrodon halys pallas belonging to viper family is only growing in China.
- [Footnote N: The Palladium, a statue of Pallas] [Footnote O: A son of Priam, slain by Achilles] nam dudum primo ut dixeram nostro seni mendacium et de hospite et de auro et de lembo, ibi signum ex arce iam abstuli. iam duo restabant fata tunc, nec magis id ceperam oppidum. post ubi tabellas ad senem detuli, ibi occidi Troilum, 960 cum censuit Mnesilochum cum uxore esse dudum militis. [ Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
- Pallas [39] and of the Titans, but imbruing altars with the shed blood of strangers, a pest unsuited to the harp, [of strangers] sighing forth [40] a piteous cry, and shedding a piteous tear. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.