Hercules into the northern sea,7 and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing,... Herodotus - Page 250by Herodotus - 1901 - 613 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jacob Bryant - 1793 - 566 pages
...strange account, " perfectly INCREDIBLE TO ME; another may '; believe it, if he pleases ; that, when they sailed '* round Libya, THEY HAD THE SUN ON THEIR ** RIGHT HAND J." The same honest author, sefl. 25* To the same purpose Aristotle: Rhet. ii. 19. 2 fin. AM®-, ix... | |
| Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...incredible."] — Herodotus does not doubt that the Phoenicians made the circuit of Africa, and returned having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. XLIII. If the Carthaginian account may be credited, Sataspes, son of Teaspes,... | |
| Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ;' for they affirmed, that having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. XLIII. If the Carthaginian account may be credited, Sataspes, son of Teaspes,... | |
| 1857 - 514 pages
...Herakles and arrived in Egypt, relating things, which Herodotus naively remarks, ' ' do not seem to me credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." An attempt was afterwards made to circumnavigate Libya by one Sataspes, of the Achaemenidae or royal... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1846 - 562 pages
...story may \ be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible; for they ' affirmed that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 7. Such is the relation of Herodotus ; and it is remarkable, that the circumstance which caused him... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...compared.6 Libya shows itself to be surrounded by water, except so much of it as borders upon Asia. Neco, king of Egypt, was the first whom we know of, that...Libya is surrounded by water. For Sataspes, son of Teaspes, one of the AchaemenidEe, did not sail round Libya, 6 He means, " it is much wider than either... | |
| 1851 - 796 pages
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes its probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south... | |
| 1851 - 614 pages
...Their story may be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible ; for they affirm that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." When Herodotus wrote the above, the Greeks were unacquainted with the phenomena of a shadow falling... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...Asia. Neco, king of Egypt, was the first whom we know of, that proved this ; he, when he had censed digging the canal leading from the Nile to the Arabian...Libya is surrounded by water. For Sataspes, son of Teaspes, one of the Achaemenidae, did not sail round Libya, 6 He means, " it is much wider than either... | |
| George Smith - 1853 - 464 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirmed that, having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya for the first time known." * In this relation of the father of history, it is observable that the difficulty... | |
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