...above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection ; but the under ground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians...crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works, I...

...for the Egyptians who have charge of the building would on no account show me them, saying, that they were the sepulchres of the kings who originally built...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented...

...above ground I myself went through and saw, and relate from personal inspection ; but the under ground rooms I only know from report ; for the Egyptians...built this labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles. J can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper...

...Fayyum. some under ground and some above ground over them, to the number of three thousand, fi•een hundred of each. The rooms above ground I myself went...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented...

...facing the north, and six the south, contiguous to one another; and the same exterior wall incloses them. It contains two kinds of rooms, some under ground...crocodiles. I can therefore only relate what I have learned by hearsay concerning the lower rooms ; but the upper ones, which surpass all human works,...

...appointed for it." The account given by Herodotus (II., 148, Gary's translation) is as follows : — " Yet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented...

..." Vet the labyrinth surpasses even the pyramids. For it has twelve courts enclosed with walls, wilh doors opposite each other, six facing the north, and...which surpass all human works, I myself saw ; for the passage through the corridors, and the windings through the courts, from their great variety, presented...

...on "no account, show me them, saying, that there were " the sepulchres of the kings who originaily built this " labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles....windings " through the courts, from their great variety, pre" sented a thousand occasions of wonder, as I passed "from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms...

...appointed for it." The account given by Herodotus (II., 148, Gary's translation) is as follows : — has twelve courts enclosed with walls, with doors...courts, from their great variety, presented a thousand occa sions of wonder, as I passed from a court to the rooms, and from the rooms to halls, and to other...

...the Egyptians who have charge of the " building would on no account show me them, saying that " these were the sepulchres of the kings who originally " built this Labyrinth, and of the sacred crocodiles."1 Wonderful tales of the marvels of this place are related by other writers, who agree...