 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...able to discover this island ; but for more than seven hundred years, the kings who preceded Amyrtaeus were unable to find it out : the name of this island...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres' had been assigned. After this, Senacherib, king of the 7 The arura, here rendered " acre," was... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 pages
...had formerly dispossessed. ' After him reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon. This man held in no account and despised the military caste...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Sennacherib, King of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - 1865 - 414 pages
...had formerly dispossessed. ' After him reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon. This man held in no account and despised the military caste...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Sennacherib, King of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1868 - 422 pages
...Strabo, xiii. i. 1 'Elian, Hist. Animal, xii. 15. 2 Isa. xxxvii. 36. own country. " After Amyrtaeus reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Sennacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - 1873 - 688 pages
...Strabo,Ttiii. i. 1 .(Elian, Hist. Animal, xii. 15. * Isa. xxx vii. 36. own country. "After Amyrtasus reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon;...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Sennacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...able to discover this island ; but for more than seven hundred years, the kings who preceded Amyrtaeus were unable to find it out : the name of this island...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres 7 had been assigned. After this, Senacherib, king of the 7 The arura, here rendered " acre,"... | |
 | William Henry Goss - 1889 - 668 pages
...mention the latter under another name, and as king of another country, namely, Egypt, thus, in Euterpe, 141 : "After him reigned the Priest of Vulcan, whose...to each of whom under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Senacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
 | Orlando P. Schmidt - 1899 - 580 pages
...longer? After Anyses, Herodotus tells us, the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon, reigned in Egypt. "He held in no account and despised the military caste...among other indignities, he took away their lands," etc. "After this, Sennacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large army against Egypt,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...able to discover this island ; but for more ihan seven hundred years, the kings who preceded Amyrtaeus were unable to find it out : the name of this island...After him reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name vas Sethon : he held in no account and despised the military taste of the Egyptians, as not having... | |
 | Leo L. Honor - 1926 - 154 pages
...our problem. It is therefore worth while to stop for a moment to examine the account in Herodotus. "After him reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name...to each of whom, under former kings, twelve chosen acres had been assigned. After this, Sennacherib, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, marched a large... | |
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Amyrtaeus reigned the priest of Vulcan, whose name was Sethon ; he held in no account and despised the military caste of the Egyptians, as not having need of their services ; and accordingly, among other indignities, he took away their lands ; to each... 
