 ... Respecting the nature of this river, I was unable to gain any information, either from the priests or any one else. I was very desirous, however, of learning from them why the Nile, beginning at the summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred...  The Histories of Herodotus - Page 92by Herodotus - 1899 - 568 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hales - 1830 - 532 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice." Diodorus, B. 1,3. says, " Its inundation begins at the summer solstice, and increases till the autumnal... | |
 | 1841 - 214 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | 1844 - 326 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1844 - 338 pages
...summer solstice, and continues to rise for a hundred days ; and then decreases for the same time, and continues low all the winter, until the return of the summer solstice. Diodorus writes to the same effect, stating that the inundation begins at the summer solstice, and... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ;...the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality that makes it differ in nature from other rivers. Being anxious, then, of... | |
 | Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 646 pages
...summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ; so that it continues low all the winter, \\nt\\ the return of the summer solstice. Of these particulars I could get no information from the... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ;...the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality that makes it differ in nature from other rivers. Being anxious, then, of... | |
 | Manchester Geographical Society - 1889 - 988 pages
...summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly complet^ this number of days, falls short in its stream and retires ; so...the winter, until the return of the summer solstice . . . by saying that the Nile flows from melted snow, it saya nothing, for this river flows from Libya... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...particulars I could get no information from the Egyptians, though I inquired whether this river have any peculiar quality that makes it differ in nature...this matter, I made inquiries, and also how it comes to,jfiiss, that this is the only one of all rivers that does not sn&mth breezes from its surface. 20.... | |
 | Albert Lee - 1906 - 400 pages
...summer solstice, fills and overflows for a hundred days ; and when it has nearly completed this number of days, falls short in its stream, and retires ;...winter, until the return of the summer solstice." Herodotus ridiculed the ideas held by some Greeks, and especially one which accounted for the rise... | |
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