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ABATON

Volume 8 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

a building at Rhodes, erected as a fence to the trophy of Artemisia, queen of Halicarnassus, Coos, &c., raised in memory of her victory over the Rhodians; or rather to conceal the disgrace of the Rhodians from the eyes of the world: for to efface or destroy the trophy was with them a point of religion.