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ABATON

Volume 2 · 57 words · 1860 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 religious abhorrence.