 | Herodotus - 1824 - 402 pages
...stands by the shore. When the arrive at Bubastis, they celebrate the festival with numerous sacrifices, and consume more wine than in all the rest of the year. For the inhabitants say this assembly usually consists of about seven hundred thousand men and women,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1824 - 380 pages
...stands by the shore. When the arrive at Bubastis, they celebrate the festival with numerous sacrifices, and consume more wine than in all the rest of the year. For the inhabitants say this assembly usually consists of about seven hundred thousand men and women,... | |
 | Charles Lassalle - 1883 - 456 pages
...be all of one family, B. ii, p. 60, that in Egypt the people were conveyed to the feast of Bubastis, in barges, the women playing on rattles, and the men...females of the towns on their way. About 700,000 people congregated at Bubastis." The construction of Babylon, which was a town of the Aborigines Caunians... | |
 | Charles Lassalle - 1883 - 452 pages
...Heliopolis ; (5) Leto, at Buto ; (6) Ares, at Papremis." P. 60 : " To Bubastis the people are conveyed in barges, the women playing on rattles and the men on flutes, others singing 379 .and clapping throughout the voyage, dancing, shouting, and scoffing females of the towns on their... | |
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Bubastis, they celebrate the festival with numerous sacrifices, and consume more wine than in all the rest of the year. 