The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and DiscoveriesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 607 pages |
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... appears to lose sight altogether of the land of certainty . The hero , receiving the instructions of Circe , crosses the ocean to the shores of Proserpine . Sailing the whole day , he comes at last to the ends of the ocean , where the ...
... appears to lose sight altogether of the land of certainty . The hero , receiving the instructions of Circe , crosses the ocean to the shores of Proserpine . Sailing the whole day , he comes at last to the ends of the ocean , where the ...
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... appears in Aeschylus . In the south we find a black nation , and a river called the Aethiops , which may perhaps answer to the Niger . Northward we get as far as the Cimmerians of the Crimea ; and far above them , the Arimaspi , the ...
... appears in Aeschylus . In the south we find a black nation , and a river called the Aethiops , which may perhaps answer to the Niger . Northward we get as far as the Cimmerians of the Crimea ; and far above them , the Arimaspi , the ...
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... appears very capricious to Herodotus . " He cannot reconcile it with the natural oneness of the earth ; he cannot see why some should have assigned the Aegyptian river Nile as a line of separation be- tween Asia and Libya , and the ...
... appears very capricious to Herodotus . " He cannot reconcile it with the natural oneness of the earth ; he cannot see why some should have assigned the Aegyptian river Nile as a line of separation be- tween Asia and Libya , and the ...
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... appear to have explored its waters , nor does he give any measure- ments of its extent . The Propontis ( or Sea of Marmora ) is joined to the Pontus Euxinus by the Bosphorus , and flows into the Aegean through the Hellespont ( or modern ...
... appear to have explored its waters , nor does he give any measure- ments of its extent . The Propontis ( or Sea of Marmora ) is joined to the Pontus Euxinus by the Bosphorus , and flows into the Aegean through the Hellespont ( or modern ...
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... with the rude Il- lyrian tribes who forced a way amongst them , and they collectively appear as rough sons of the moun- 1 iv . 49 . EUROPE . tains , whose disposition presented features little more GREECE , OR HELLAS . 27.
... with the rude Il- lyrian tribes who forced a way amongst them , and they collectively appear as rough sons of the moun- 1 iv . 49 . EUROPE . tains , whose disposition presented features little more GREECE , OR HELLAS . 27.
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Page 264 - The women also with cords about them, sitting in the ways, burn bran for perfume: but if any of them, drawn by some that passeth by, lie with him, she reproacheth her fellow, that she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.
Page 577 - Though we pursued the men we could not seize any of them ; but all fled from us, escaping over the precipices, and defending themselves with stones. Three women were however taken ; but they attacked their conductors with their teeth and hands, and could not be prevailed upon to accompany us. Having killed them, we flayed them, and brought their skins with us to Carthage.
Page 524 - Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
Page 257 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall...
Page 577 - In this was a large island, and in the island a salt-water lake, and in this another island, where, when we had landed, we could discover nothing in the daytime except trees ; but in the night we saw many fires burning, and heard the sound of pipes, cymbals, drums, and confused shouts. We were then afraid, and our diviners ordered us to abandon the island.
Page 487 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 491 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 493 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father : and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
Page 268 - Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills : therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Page 20 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.