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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Cholargos.

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Examples

  • For Callicrates and Ictinus built the Parthenon; the chapel at Eleusis, where the mysteries were celebrated, was begun by Coroebus, who erected the pillars that stand upon the floor or pavement, and joined them to the architraves; and after his death Metagenes of Xypete added the frieze and the upper line of columns; Xenocles of Cholargus roofed or arched the lantern on the top of the temple of Castor and

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Pericles was of the tribe Acamantis, and the township Cholargus, of the noblest birth both on his father’s and mother’s side.

    Pericles Plutarch 1909

  • Pericles was of the tribe of Acamantis, and the township Cholargus, of the noblest birth both on his father's and mother's side.

    The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884

  • Hyperbolus was the last, as Hipparchus of Cholargus, who was some relation to the despot of that name, was the first.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • For Callicrates and Ictinus built the Parthenon; the chapel at Eleusis, where the mysteries were celebrated, was begun by Corœbus, who erected the pillars that stand upon the floor or pavement, and joined them to the architraves; and after his death Metagenes of Xypete added the frieze and the upper line of columns; Xenocles of Cholargus roofed or arched the lantern on the top of the temple of Castor and Pollux; and the long wall, which Socrates says he himself heard Pericles propose to the people, was undertaken by Callicrates.

    Pericles Plutarch 1909

  • Eleusis, where the mysteries were celebrated, was begun by Coroebus, who erected the pillars that stand upon the floor or pavement, and joined them to the architraves; and after his death Metagenes of Xypete added the frieze and the upper line of columns; Xenocles of Cholargus roofed or arched the lantern on the top of the temple of Castor and Pollux; and the long wall, which Socrates says he himself heard Pericles propose to the people, was undertaken by Callicrates.

    The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls 46-120? Plutarch 1884

  • Pericles was of the tribe Acamantis, and the township Cholargus, of the noblest birth both on his father’s and mother’s side.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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