| Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 692 pages
...were a hundred stables all along the river from Memphis to Thebes towards Libya, each of which were capable to hold two hundred horses, the marks and...monuments of gold, silver, and ivory, and multitudes of Colossuses and obelisks, cut out of one entire stone. For there were there four temples built, for... | |
| Diodorus (Siculus.) - 1814 - 686 pages
...were a hundred stables all along the river from Memphis to Thebes towards Libya, each of which were capable to hold two hundred horses, the marks and...monuments of gold, silver, and ivory, and multitudes of Colossuses and obelisks, cut out of one entire stone. For there were there four temples built, for... | |
| Ramses II (King of Egypt), Edward Upham - 1824 - 366 pages
...to the wars. Iliad, b, 9. No city under the sun was adorned with so many stately monuments nfgold, silver, and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks cut out of one entire stone. The most ancient temple for beauty and greatness was in circuit thirteen furlongs, above two miles,... | |
| 1836 - 282 pages
...founder, added greatly to its size and magnificence, "so that," as his English translator expresses it, " there was no city under the sun so adorned with so...colossi and obelisks cut out of one entire stone." There were four • See Saturday Masatine, Vol II., p. 64. temples, we learn also, " for beauty and... | |
| P. Austin Nuttall - 1840 - 722 pages
...miles, and its width from side to side was from seven to eight miles. No city was adorned with so many stately monuments of gold, silver, and ivory, and...colossi and obelisks cut out of one entire stone. The temple which was most distinguished for beauty and greatness, was in circuit thirteen furlongs,... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...of the city. Diodorus, an ancient historian, says, " There was no city under the sun so adorned with many and stately monuments of gold, silver, and ivory,...colossi and obelisks cut out of one entire stone. Barneses the Great adorned the city. Thebes was built on the banks of the river Nile. It probably was... | |
| William Eleroy Curtis - 1905 - 476 pages
...each of which was capable of holding 200 horses, and "no city under the sun is adorned with so many stately monuments of gold, silver and ivory, and multitudes...colossi and obelisks cut out of one entire stone." He describes four temples, "the most ancient of which is in circuit thirteen furlongs [about one and... | |
| Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall - 1910 - 690 pages
...only this king, but the succeeding princes from time to time, made it their business to beautify the city ; for that there was no city under the sun so...and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks." In BC 24 Strabo visited Thebes, and describes it as follows : — " Next to the city of Apollo is Thebes,... | |
| Albert Bigelow Paine - 1910 - 448 pages
..."the marks and signs of which," he says, "are visible to this day." Of its glory in general he adds: "There was no city under the sun so adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold and silver and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks cut out of entire stone." Still further... | |
| Albert Bigelow Paine - 1910 - 448 pages
...he adds: "There was no city under the sun so adorned with so many and stately monuments of gold and silver and ivory, and multitudes of colossi and obelisks cut out of entire stone." Still further along Diodorus adds, "There, they say, are the wonderful sepulchres of... | |
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