violet-crowned

Each one of them prayed that he might lead her home to be his wedded wife, so greatly were they amazed at the beauty of violet-crowned Cytherea.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Now he can hold his head above other Greeks; now he is no longer a man without a city, no longer a refugee from spear-won land: he is a man who defends what is sacred and holy and who returns the violet-crowned land of the goddess to the children of Athena, a city made great and strong again.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Almost the only new birds I met with for some time were a handsome ground thrush (Pitta celebensis), and a beautiful violet-crowned dove (Ptilonopus celebensis), both very similar to birds I had recently obtained at Aru, but of distinct species.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Now he can hold his head above other Greeks; now he is no longer a man without a city, no longer a refugee from spear-won land: he is a man who defends what is sacred and holy and who returns the violet-crowned land of the goddess to the children of Athena, a city made great and strong again.

The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

"O shining, violet-crowned city of song, great Athens, bulwark of Hellas, walls divine!"

Early European History Hutton Webster

Each one of them prayed that he might lead her home to be his wedded wife, so greatly were they amazed at the beauty of violet-crowned Cytherea.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Then followed grim-visaged Calvin and "violet-crowned, sweet-smiling Sappho" who danced a Schottische.

The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924

The splendor of the violet-crowned city of Athens is succeeded by the island of Corfu, the cradle of the literary renaissance of Modern Hellenism, which again fades before the vision of Egypt, whence the earliest lights of civilization shone upon the land of the Greeks.

Life Immovable First Part Kostes Palamas 1901

Low foreheads characterize the antique; but who can fancy 'violet-crowned, immortal Sappho,'

Beulah 1872

Piraeus; how loud the nightingales sang in the plane and poplar groves at home; how the white glory of the Parthenon smiled down on violet-crowned Athens, where their wives and children thronged the temples, in sacrificial rites to insure their safety.

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872