 | Herodotus - 1824 - 402 pages
...Menes, who was the first king of Egypt, among many other things which he performed, by raising mounds ", rendered Memphis secure from inundation; for the river...excellence of its wine made it in aftertimes celebrated. Larcher. 8 Athenaeus says, (Deipn. i. 25.) that it was given ug £cavag,for her girdles. ' This was... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards the... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards the... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 342 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected ' Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to ' the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning; ' about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards '... | |
 | E. A. Wallis Budge - 2001 - 344 pages
...Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards the... | |
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Menes, who first ruled over Egypt, in the first place protected Memphis by a mound ; for the whole river formerly ran close to the sandy mountain on the side of Libya ; but Menes, beginning about a hundred stades above Memphis, filled in the elbow towards... 