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" Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed,... "
Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a ... - Page 238
by Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 613 pages
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Treatise Upon the Authenticity of the Scriptures and the Truth of the ...

Jacob Bryant - 1793 - 566 pages
...strange account, " perfectly INCREDIBLE TO ME; another may '; believe it, if he pleases ; that, when they sailed '* round Libya, THEY HAD THE SUN ON THEIR ** RIGHT HAND J." The same honest author, sefl. 25* To the same purpose Aristotle: Rhet. ii. 19. 2 fin. AM®-, ix...
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Herodotus, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1812 - 468 pages
...— Herodotus does not doubt that the Phoenicians made the circuit of Africa, and returned to having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. LXIII. If the Carthaginian account may be credited, Sataspes, son of Teaspes,...
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Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1821 - 478 pages
...incredible."] — Herodotus does not doubt that the Phoenicians made the circuit of Africa, and returned having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. XLIII. If the Carthaginian account may be credited, Sataspes, son of Teaspes,...
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Herodotus, tr. by W. Beloe, Volume 2

Herodotus - 1830 - 352 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ;' for they affirmed, that having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. XLIII. If the Carthaginian account may be credited, Sataspes, son of Teaspes,...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 28

1857 - 514 pages
...Herakles and arrived in Egypt, relating things, which Herodotus naively remarks, ' ' do not seem to me credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." An attempt was afterwards made to circumnavigate Libya by one Sataspes, of the Achaemenidae or royal...
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Ancient History: From the Creation to the Fall of Rome, A.D. 476

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1846 - 562 pages
...story may \ be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible; for they ' affirmed that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 7. Such is the relation of Herodotus ; and it is remarkable, that the circumstance which caused him...
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Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr

Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...Asia. Neco, king of Egypt, was the first whom we know of, that proved this ; he, when he had ceased digging the canal leading from the Nile to the Arabian...by water. For Sataspes, son of Teaspes, one of the AchaemenidEe, did not sail round Libya, 6 He means, " it is much wider than either of them." 7 Meaning...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 24

1851 - 796 pages
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes its probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south...
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A History of All Nations, from the Earlier Periods to the Present ..., Volume 1

1851 - 614 pages
...Their story may be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible ; for they affirm that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." When Herodotus wrote the above, the Greeks were unacquainted with the phenomena of a shadow falling...
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The Gentile Nations: Or, The History and Religion of the Egyptians ..., Volume 1

George Smith - 1853 - 464 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirmed that, having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya for the first time known." * In this relation of the father of history, it is observable that the difficulty...
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