 | Alexander Hamilton - 1820 - 454 pages
...the beasts of the field : in the first year there made its appearance, from a part of the Erythrean sea, which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Cannes." The account goes on to give the cosmogony of the world, and the reigns of the kings ; making the collective... | |
 | Evan Powell Meredith - 1864 - 634 pages
...this species of genius. — "In the first year there made its appearance, from a part of the Erythœan sea, which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Oannes. According to the account of Apollodorus, the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1876 - 272 pages
...beasts of the field. In the first year there made its appearance, from a part of the Erythraean sea1 which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Cannes. (According to the account of Apollodorus) the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish ; and... | |
 | Fletcher S. Bassett - 1885 - 520 pages
...Sea an animal endowed with reason, who was called Oannes (according to the account of Apollodorus). The whole body of the animal was like that of a fish, and had under its fish head another head, and also feet below similar to that of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail."... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - 1886 - 436 pages
...appeared, from out of the Erythrean Sea (the ancient Greek name for the Persian Gulf) where it borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who...was called CANNES. The whole body of the animal was that of a fish, but under the fish's head he had another head, and also feet below, growing out of... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - 1886 - 782 pages
...appeared, from out of the Erythrean Sea (the ancient Greek name for the Persian Gulf) where it borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who...was called CANNES. The whole body of the animal was that of a fish, but under the fish's head he had another head, and also feet below, growing out of... | |
 | Jason Nelson Fradenburgh - 1886 - 488 pages
...Polyhistor, he says : " In the first year there made its appearance, from a part of tlie Erythraean Sea, which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Cannes. (According to the account of Apollodorus) the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish ; and... | |
 | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin - 1889 - 914 pages
...appeared, from out of the Erythrean Sea (the ancient Greek name for the Persian Gulf) where it borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who...was called CANNES. The whole body of the animal was that of a fish, but under the fish's head he had another head, and also feet below, growing out of... | |
 | William Simpson - 1899 - 218 pages
...like beasts in the field. In the first year there made its appearance, from a part of the Erythraean sea which bordered upon Babylonia, an animal endowed with reason, who was called Oannes. [According to the account of Apollodorus] the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish... | |
 | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1906 - 396 pages
..." like animals. But in the first year there appeared from out the " Erythrean Sea where it borders upon Babylonia, an animal endowed " with reason, who...called Cannes. The whole body of the " animal was that of a fish, but under the fish's head he had another " head, and also feet below, growing out of... | |
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Oannes. (According to the account of Apollodorus) the whole body of the animal was like that of a fish ; and had under a fish's head another head, and also feet below, similar to those of a man, subjoined to the fish's tail. His voice, too, and language... 
