 | Herodotus - 1846 - 426 pages
...the burden : this experiment achieved, he accordingly scoops out the egg, sufficiently to deposit bis sire within ; he next fills with fresh myrrh the opening...transports him into Egypt, and to the temple of the Sun. '" giu-ra ««*'*Tl«. Herodotus here in my translation, to hare put simply joins the words ^arrit... | |
 | Henry Green - 1870 - 644 pages
...experiment being achieved, he scoops out the egg sufficiently to deposit his sire within ; next he fills with fresh myrrh the opening in the egg, by...containing the carcase is still of the same weight. The embalming being completed, he transports him into Egypt and to the temple of the Sun." Pliny's... | |
 | Henry Green - 1870 - 654 pages
...the egg sufficiently to deposit his sire within ; next he fills with fresh myrrh the opening in'the egg, by which the body was enclosed ; thus the whole...containing the carcase is still of the same weight. The embalming being completed, he transports him into Egypt and to the temple of the Sun." Pliny's... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 pages
...carry, and then •Cf. "The Old English Elene, Phoenix, and Physiologus." AS Cook, p. xl It., 1919. tries if he can bear the burden ; this experiment...was enclosed ; thus the whole mass, containing the carease, is still of the same weight. Having thus completed the embalming, he transports him into Egypt,... | |
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Arabia, and bringing with him his father to the temple of the Sun, embalmed in myrrh, and there burying him. The manner in which this is done, is as follows : — In the first place, he sticks together an egg of myrrh, as much as he can carry, and then... 