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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... thousand two hundred days , without including the intercalary month ; and if we add that month to every other year , in * If the first number 25,200 is correct , it follows that the year was 360 days ; if the number of intercalary days ...
... thousand two hundred days , without including the intercalary month ; and if we add that month to every other year , in * If the first number 25,200 is correct , it follows that the year was 360 days ; if the number of intercalary days ...
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... thousand and fifty . Yet in all this number of twenty - six thousand two hundred and fifty days , that compose these seventy years , one day produces nothing exactly the same as another . Thus , then , O Croesus , man is altogether the ...
... thousand and fifty . Yet in all this number of twenty - six thousand two hundred and fifty days , that compose these seventy years , one day produces nothing exactly the same as another . Thus , then , O Croesus , man is altogether the ...
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... thousand talents of frankincense when they celebrate the festival of this god . There was also at that time within the precincts of this temple a statue of solid gold , twelve cubits high : I , indeed , did not see it ; I only relate ...
... thousand talents of frankincense when they celebrate the festival of this god . There was also at that time within the precincts of this temple a statue of solid gold , twelve cubits high : I , indeed , did not see it ; I only relate ...
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... thousand talents . Every vessel has a live ass on board , and the larger ones more ; for after they arrive at Babylon , and have disposed of their freight , they sell the ribs of the boat and all the reeds by public auction ; then ...
... thousand talents . Every vessel has a live ass on board , and the larger ones more ; for after they arrive at Babylon , and have disposed of their freight , they sell the ribs of the boat and all the reeds by public auction ; then ...
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... thousand six hundred stades in length . 7. From thence , as far as Heliopolis , inland , Egypt is wide , being all flat , without water , and a swamp . tance to Heliopolis , as one goes up from the sea , is about equal in length to the ...
... thousand six hundred stades in length . 7. From thence , as far as Heliopolis , inland , Egypt is wide , being all flat , without water , and a swamp . tance to Heliopolis , as one goes up from the sea , is about equal in length to the ...
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