 And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones, a work,...  The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus - Page 166by Herodotus - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1837 - 450 pages
...the task of dragging, from the quarries in the Arabian mountains, the blocks down to the Nile "'0' : others he stationed to take the said blocks, when...the time during which the people were thus ground down'08, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed for the conveyance of the stones ; a work... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1876 - 482 pages
...drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years, on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 338 pages
...Bk. ii. 124-126. them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of 100,000 men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1894 - 450 pages
...river, and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of 100,000 men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil, lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1898 - 246 pages
...when brought across the river in vessels, and drag them to the ranges called the Libyan mountains. They were compelled to labour in this manner by one...hundred thousand at a time, each party during three months1." Ten years were devoted to making a causeway which leads to the Pyramid and in executing subterranean... | |
 | William Cunningham - 1913 - 260 pages
...called the Libyan mountains. They 1 Flinders Petrie, Lecture on Arts of Ancient Egypt, p. j6. cwc a were compelled to labour in this manner by one hundred thousand at a time, each party during three months1." Ten years were devoted to making a causeway which leads to the Pyramid and in executing subterranean... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1921 - 992 pages
...river, and to drag them to the mountain called the Libyan. And they worked to the number of 100,000 men at a time, each ' party during three months. The time during which the people ' were thus harassed by toil lasted 10 years on the road which they ' constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
 | S. H. Ford - 1996 - 222 pages
...drag them to the mountain called the Libyan ; and they worked to the number of a hundred thousand men at a time, each party during three months. The time during which the people were thus harassed by toil lasted ten years on the road which they constructed, along which they drew the stones,... | |
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