Lexicographical Neighbors of Omphali
Literary usage of Omphali
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Ancient Pottery by Samuel Birch (1858)
"... or glandular omphali, an example of which has been found. Another variety of
this shape was the phiale ..."
2. Naology: Or, A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Symbolical Import of by John Dudley (1846)
"This might have been probable were it true that all these omphali were oracular.
... Many circumstances shew that the omphali of Greece were in reality of ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1875)
"It stands in close relation to the group of which C. omphali* may be regarded as
the type ; it is very large, being in diameter 0 02, ..."
4. A Treatise on Ruptures by William Lawrence (1838)
"... several ex- omphali, both of young and older subjects. The protruded parts
will naturally tend downwards; so that the opening into the abdomen is from ..."
5. The Numismatic Chronicle by Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain) (1882)
"47 Unfortunately, marble statues of Asklepios, or statues assumed to be of
Asklepios, have suffered much at the hands of the modern restorer. The omphali ..."
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