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" During this time, they related, that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises... "
Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ... - Page 140
by Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 613 pages
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The History of Herodotus, Volume 1

Herodotus - 1824 - 402 pages
...and to go down twice where he now rises ; yet without producing any change, in the things in Egypt, either with regard to the productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to diseases and deaths. CXLIII. Some time before, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecataeus" the historian, when...
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The Early History of Egypt

Samuel Sharpe - 1836 - 198 pages
...and within this period the sun had four times risen contrary to his common course — twice he had risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. On the death of Sethon the priest of Vulcan, the Egyptians became free : the country was divided into...
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Great Britain Has Been and Will be Again Within the Tropics, Etc

Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1859 - 72 pages
...sets, and to go down twice where he now rises, yet without producing any change in the things in Egypt either with regard to the productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to diseases and death." If this were a solitary account, we might look upon it with suspicion, but even then we...
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A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time, Volume 1

Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 pages
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 1l,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars...
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ...

Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time, they related that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...143. In former time, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecatreus the historian, when he was tracing his own genealogy, and connecting his family with a god...
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American Antiquities: Or, The New World the Old, and the Old ..., Volume 34

John T. C. Heaviside - 1868 - 56 pages
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time the sun had four times risen out of its usual quarter, and had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises ; yet no change in the things of Egypt was occasioned, either with regard to diseases or to deaths." If the...
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Glimpses of the Future Life: With an Appendix on the Probable Law of ...

Mungo Ponton - 1873 - 230 pages
...accompanying averment that, in the course of the 11,340 years, embraced in their pontificates, the sun had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. The same author, however, confirms the view that there were anciently several contemporaneous sovereigns...
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From the creation of the world to the accession of Philip of Macedon

Philip Smith - 1873 - 596 pages
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 11,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars...
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Three Wet Sundays with the Book of Joshua

Ellen Palmer - 1874 - 206 pages
...him, among other things, that in a certain number of years " the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...change in the things in Egypt was occasioned by this." ' Now, Daisy, in the time mentioned by Herodotus, we know that two disturbances of the natural course...
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Herodotus: Literally Translated from the Text of Baehr : with a Geographical ...

Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time, they related, that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...143. In former time, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecataius the historian, when he was tracing his own genealogy, and connecting his family with a god...
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