Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr. .c With a Geographical and General IndexHarper & Bros., 1855 - 613 pages |
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... Hercules . For Agron , son of Ninus , grandson of Belus , great - grandson of Alcæus , was the first of the Heraclide who became king of Sardis ; and Candaules , son of Myrsus , was the last . They who ruled over this country before ...
... Hercules . For Agron , son of Ninus , grandson of Belus , great - grandson of Alcæus , was the first of the Heraclide who became king of Sardis ; and Candaules , son of Myrsus , was the last . They who ruled over this country before ...
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... Hercules , and border on the territories of the Cynesians , who lie in the extremity of Europe to the westward ; and the Ister terminates by flow- ing through all Europe into the Euxine Sea , where a Milesian colony is settled in Istria ...
... Hercules , and border on the territories of the Cynesians , who lie in the extremity of Europe to the westward ; and the Ister terminates by flow- ing through all Europe into the Euxine Sea , where a Milesian colony is settled in Istria ...
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... Hercules was very desirous of seeing Jupiter , but Ju- piter was unwilling to be seen by him ; at last , however , as Hercules persisted , Jupiter had recourse to the following con- trivance having flayed a ram , he cut off the head ...
... Hercules was very desirous of seeing Jupiter , but Ju- piter was unwilling to be seen by him ; at last , however , as Hercules persisted , Jupiter had recourse to the following con- trivance having flayed a ram , he cut off the head ...
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... Hercules I have heard this account , that he is one of the twelve gods ; but of the other Hercules , who is known to the Grecians , I could never hear in any part of Egypt . And that the Egyptians did not derive the name of Hercules ...
... Hercules I have heard this account , that he is one of the twelve gods ; but of the other Hercules , who is known to the Grecians , I could never hear in any part of Egypt . And that the Egyptians did not derive the name of Hercules ...
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... Hercules is a god of great antiquity , and therefore those Gre- cians appear to me to have acted most correctly , who have built two kinds of temples sacred to Hercules , and who sacri- ficed to one as an immortal , under the name of ...
... Hercules is a god of great antiquity , and therefore those Gre- cians appear to me to have acted most correctly , who have built two kinds of temples sacred to Hercules , and who sacri- ficed to one as an immortal , under the name of ...
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