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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... death by tearing his flesh with a fuller's thistle ; and having already vowed all his treas- ure to the gods , he dedicated it in the manner above described to the places I have mentioned . And this may suffice respect- ing the ...
... death by tearing his flesh with a fuller's thistle ; and having already vowed all his treas- ure to the gods , he dedicated it in the manner above described to the places I have mentioned . And this may suffice respect- ing the ...
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... death ; and so the Medes recovered their former power , and all they had possessed before ; and they took Nineveh ( how they took it I will relate in another work ) , and reduced the Assyrians into subjection , with the exception of the ...
... death ; and so the Medes recovered their former power , and all they had possessed before ; and they took Nineveh ( how they took it I will relate in another work ) , and reduced the Assyrians into subjection , with the exception of the ...
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... death , returned home weeping ; and upon his arrival he told his wife all that Astyages had said . She asked him , " What , then , do you purpose to do ? " He answered , " Not as Astyages has commanded ; though he should be yet more ...
... death , returned home weeping ; and upon his arrival he told his wife all that Astyages had said . She asked him , " What , then , do you purpose to do ? " He answered , " Not as Astyages has commanded ; though he should be yet more ...
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... death ; and I am appointed to see the child ex- posed . " 111. The herdsman , having heard these words , took the infant , returned back by the same way , and reached his cottage . It so happened that his own wife , whose confinement ...
... death ; and I am appointed to see the child ex- posed . " 111. The herdsman , having heard these words , took the infant , returned back by the same way , and reached his cottage . It so happened that his own wife , whose confinement ...
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... death he delivered to his wife ; his own , which was dead , he put into the basket in which he had brought the other , and having dressed it in all the finery of the other child , he exposed it in the most desolate part of the mountains ...
... death he delivered to his wife ; his own , which was dead , he put into the basket in which he had brought the other , and having dressed it in all the finery of the other child , he exposed it in the most desolate part of the mountains ...
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