 excavations! It is related that Cheops reached such a degree of infamy that, being in want of money, he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort, they did not say how much; but she exacted a certain sum of money, privately,...  The Histories of Herodotus - Page 131by Herodotus - 1904 - 568 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 640 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. 126. It is related that Cheops reached such a degree of...privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. 126. It is related that Cheops reached such a degree of...privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1890 - 338 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. [It is related] that Cheops reached such a degree...privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1901 - 708 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. [It is related] that Cheops reached such a degree...privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 716 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. [It is related] that Cheops reached such a degree...privately, as much as her father ordered her ; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | Murray Anthony Potter - 1902 - 272 pages
...the thief, she was to seize and not suffer to escape.' l The second story is of Cheops. He says: ' It is related that Cheops reached such a degree of...his own daughter in a brothel, and ordered her to extort—they did not say how much—but she exacted a certain sum of money privately, as much as her... | |
 | Somadeva Bhaṭṭa - 1926 - 382 pages
...Musee du Caire, p. 145. Cairo, 1920). According to Herodotus (ii, 126), when Cheops was in sore need of money " he prostituted his own daughter in a brothel,...money, privately, as much as her father ordered her. ..." historical, there are several examples in Egyptian tales of prostitution in order to obtain some... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1964 - 446 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. [It is related] that Cheops reached such a degree...privately, as much as her father ordered her; and contrived to leave a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
 | E. A. Wallis Budge - 2001 - 344 pages
...besides, as I think, in cutting and drawing the stones, and in forming the subterraneous excavation. [It is related] that Cheops reached such a degree...privately, as much as her father ordered her; and contrived to lesve a monument of herself, and asked every one that came in to her to give her a stone... | |
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