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Monti Gemelli
Monti Gemelli (''Twin Mountains'') is the name given to two similar mountains, Montagna dei Fiori and Montagna di Campli, in the Abruzzo region of Italy. They are located in the Province of Teramo. Description The two peaks are located on the eastern side of the Monti della Laga mountain range, and they are separated by a gorge carved by the Salinello stream. The northern mountain, Montaga dei Fiori, has a slope descending into the Province of Ascoli Piceno. These mountains are also associated with the herb Field Wort (known in Latin as herba gentiana) which, according to the Pseudo-Apuleius Herbal, is useful against snake bite.The Old English Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus See also * Monti della Laga * Apennine Mountains * Herbarium Apuleii Platoni References The Old English Herbarium and Medicina de Quadrupedibus, The Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press: London, 1984. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Monti Gemelli
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural '' ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
