 | 1852 - 638 pages
...the water its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...with this service that it never hurts the trochilus. t Upon this foundation succeeding writers have raised their fantastic structures, and we proceed to... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...crocodiles are sacred ; with others not, but they treat them as enemies. Those who dwell about Thebes, and Lake Moeris, consider them to be very sacred... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1852 - 446 pages
...the water its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit, from...with this service that it never hurts the trochilus.* Upon this foundation succeeding writers have raised their fantastic structures, and we proceed to give... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 742 pages
...commonly towards the west, the trochilus enters its mouth, and swallows the leeches (which infest it). The crocodile is so well pleased with this service that it never hurts the trochilus." This statement has been received by the majority of writers, including Sir Gardner Wilkinson, as a... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches. The crocodile is so well... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pages
...conflicting opinions ; it is the following : — " All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...trochilus enters its mouth, and swallows the leeches which infest it. The crocodile is so well pleased with this service that it never hurts the trochilus."... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 720 pages
...is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilns, because he receives benefit from that bird. For when...with this service that it never hurts the trochilus." The pretty story of the trochilus and the leeches is unfortunately more than doubtful. Leeches are... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...and then opens its jaws, which it does most commonly toward the west, the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches : the crocodile is so well... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him; but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...its jaws, which it does most commonly towards the west—the trochilus enters its mouth and swallows the leeches ; the crocodile is so well pleased with... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit from...crocodiles are sacred ; with others not, but they treat them as enemies. Those who dwell about Thebes, and Lake Moeris, consider them to be very sacred... | |
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It is blind in the water, but very quick-sighted on land ; and because it lives for the most part in the water, its mouth is filled with leeches. All other birds and beasts avoid him, but he is at peace with the trochilus, because he receives benefit... 
