Cnidus
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Mechanics Sirs: Medical charlatans have existed since the beginning of history and doubtless will always exist; even Hippocrates had his contention with the school at Cnidus.
From Time Magazine Archive
She discovered the head in London's British Museum among fragments brought back from Cnidus by the English archaeologist Sir Charles Newton more than a century ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agesilaus advanced from Asia through Thrace to co-operate, but learned, on the confines of Bœotia, the news of the great battle of Cnidus.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
We may take as an example what was perhaps the most famous statue of antiquity, the Aphrodite by Praxiteles at Cnidus.
From Religion and Art in Ancient Greece by Ernest Arthur Gardner
Classical scholars will remember that a somewhat similar tale is told by Pliny of the Venus of Praxiteles in Cnidus.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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