| Samuel Sharpe - 1836 - 198 pages
...and within this period the sun had four times risen contrary to his common course — twice he had risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. On the death of Sethon the priest of Vulcan, the Egyptians became free : the country was divided into... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...assumed the form of a man ; neither, they said, had any such thing happened before, or afterwards, in the time of the remaining kings of Egypt. During...related, that the sun had four times risen out of bis usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises... | |
| Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 pages
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 1l,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars... | |
| John T. C. Heaviside - 1868 - 56 pages
...years no god had assumed the form of man; neither had any such thing happened before, or afterwards in the time of the remaining kings of Egypt. During this time the sun had four times risen out of its usual quarter, and had twice risen where he now sets, and twice... | |
| Philip Smith - 1873 - 596 pages
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 11,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars... | |
| Mungo Ponton - 1873 - 230 pages
...accompanying averment that, in the course of the 11,340 years, embraced in their pontificates, the sun had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. The same author, however, confirms the view that there were anciently several contemporaneous sovereigns... | |
| Ellen Palmer - 1874 - 206 pages
...happened in their time ; and they told him, among other things, that in a certain number of years " the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter,...change in the things in Egypt was occasioned by this." ' Now, Daisy, in the time mentioned by Herodotus, we know that two disturbances of the natural course... | |
| Philip Smith - 1885 - 602 pages
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 11,340 years. Ho adds that, during this period, the sun had "twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars... | |
| Frederick Gard Fleay - 1899 - 222 pages
...volume is Manetho responsible : as we shall see. I take the statement in Herodotus ii. 142, that the sun had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises, to mean that two complete Sothic cycles had been gone through since the time of Menes ; and that the... | |
| Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...assumed the form of a man ; neither, they said, had any such thing happened before, or afterwards, in the time of the remaining kings of Egypt. During...productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to dis eases, or with respeci iv, deaths. 143. In former time, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecatams... | |
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