The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and DiscoveriesLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 607 pages |
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... Southern Africa are mere fanciful sketches , which indeed they must be , for Herodotus could know nothing of the coast , and in fact was not at all sure that there was a coast to Southern Africa at all . But in truth Herodotus was more ...
... Southern Africa are mere fanciful sketches , which indeed they must be , for Herodotus could know nothing of the coast , and in fact was not at all sure that there was a coast to Southern Africa at all . But in truth Herodotus was more ...
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... Southern Thrace Herodotus's idea of the magnitude of Thrace Its frontier towards Scythia • Route taken by Darius : bridge over the Bosphorus ; two columns of white marble ; Byzantium · Cyanean isles ; river Tearus ' ; Heraeopolis ...
... Southern Thrace Herodotus's idea of the magnitude of Thrace Its frontier towards Scythia • Route taken by Darius : bridge over the Bosphorus ; two columns of white marble ; Byzantium · Cyanean isles ; river Tearus ' ; Heraeopolis ...
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... southern Russia , Moldavia , and Wallachia 138 ib Face of the country Crimea or Taurica Rivers of southern Russia Herodotus's description of Scythia Its form and measurement Its boundaries Extent of our author's personal knowledge ib ...
... southern Russia , Moldavia , and Wallachia 138 ib Face of the country Crimea or Taurica Rivers of southern Russia Herodotus's description of Scythia Its form and measurement Its boundaries Extent of our author's personal knowledge ib ...
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... Southern Italy , occupied by Greek colonies , viz . Rhegium , Taras , Agylla , Hyela in Oenotria , Croton , Metapontium , ib 175 176 ib ib 177 Sybaris , Siris , Iapygia , Brundusium , Hyria , and Epizephyrian Locrians 178 II . NORTHERN ...
... Southern Italy , occupied by Greek colonies , viz . Rhegium , Taras , Agylla , Hyela in Oenotria , Croton , Metapontium , ib 175 176 ib ib 177 Sybaris , Siris , Iapygia , Brundusium , Hyria , and Epizephyrian Locrians 178 II . NORTHERN ...
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... Southern Media , or Media Magna , answering to Irak Ajemi Two capitals , each named Ecbatana ib ib ib Media of Herodotus ib Identified by Rennell with Irak Ajemi , and the Ecbatana with Hamadan 287 . Page Identified by Col. Rawlinson ...
... Southern Media , or Media Magna , answering to Irak Ajemi Two capitals , each named Ecbatana ib ib ib Media of Herodotus ib Identified by Rennell with Irak Ajemi , and the Ecbatana with Hamadan 287 . Page Identified by Col. Rawlinson ...
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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.
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