The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Volume 2D. Appleton and Company, 1866 |
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... Egyptians - their strangeness ( 35-36 ) . Religious customs ( 37-48 ) . Connection of the religions of Egypt and Greece ( 49- 57 ) . Egyptian Festivals ( 58-64 ) . Sacred animals ( 65-67 ) . The Crocodile ( 68–70 ) . The Hippopotamus ...
... Egyptians - their strangeness ( 35-36 ) . Religious customs ( 37-48 ) . Connection of the religions of Egypt and Greece ( 49- 57 ) . Egyptian Festivals ( 58-64 ) . Sacred animals ( 65-67 ) . The Crocodile ( 68–70 ) . The Hippopotamus ...
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... Egyptians and Greeks Page 237 CHAPTER III . 66 THE EGYPTIANS FIRST BROUGHT INTO USE THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE GODS WHICH THE GREEKS ADOPTED From them . ” — Chap . 4. [ G. W. ] Different orders of gods . The great gods of the first order ...
... Egyptians and Greeks Page 237 CHAPTER III . 66 THE EGYPTIANS FIRST BROUGHT INTO USE THE NAMES OF THE TWELVE GODS WHICH THE GREEKS ADOPTED From them . ” — Chap . 4. [ G. W. ] Different orders of gods . The great gods of the first order ...
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... Egyptians had 12 hours of day and of night . The week of seven days in Egypt . The Aztec week of nine days . The seven - day division in Egypt . The number seven . Division by ten . Greek and Egyptian month and year of three parts ...
... Egyptians had 12 hours of day and of night . The week of seven days in Egypt . The Aztec week of nine days . The seven - day division in Egypt . The number seven . Division by ten . Greek and Egyptian month and year of three parts ...
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... Egyptians . 30th dynasty of Egyptians - Nectanebo II . defeated . Ochus recovered Egypt . Duration of the Egyptian kingdom . Page 284 HISTORY OF HERODOTUS . THE THIRD BOOK , ENTITLED THALIA . • Causes of quarrel between Persia and Egypt ...
... Egyptians . 30th dynasty of Egyptians - Nectanebo II . defeated . Ochus recovered Egypt . Duration of the Egyptian kingdom . Page 284 HISTORY OF HERODOTUS . THE THIRD BOOK , ENTITLED THALIA . • Causes of quarrel between Persia and Egypt ...
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... Egyptians , before the reign of their king Psam- metichus , believed themselves to be the most ancient of man- kind ... Egyptians with being in its in- fancy as compared with them . According to the account which Herodotus gives below ...
... Egyptians , before the reign of their king Psam- metichus , believed themselves to be the most ancient of man- kind ... Egyptians with being in its in- fancy as compared with them . According to the account which Herodotus gives below ...
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Page 113 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I am the LORD.
Page 147 - If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day? 24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Page 63 - And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.
Page 208 - And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land : for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
Page 158 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Page 118 - Medicine is practised among them on a plan of separation ; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more: thus the country swarms with medical practitioners, some undertaking to cure diseases of the eye, others of the head, others again of the teeth, others of the intestines, and some those which are not local.
Page 116 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 152 - And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 322 - Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Page 43 - The Nasamonians could not understand a word of .their language, nor had they any acquaintance with the language of the Nasamonians. They were led across extensive marshes, and finally came to a town, where all the men were of the height of their conductors, and black-complexioned. A great river flowed by the town, running from west to east, and containing crocodiles.