The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and Appendices, Volume 2D. Appleton and Company, 1866 |
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... means ; and this attention to artificial irrigation , instead of depending for it on rain , is alluded to in Deuteronomy xi . 10. There is one instance , and one only , of men drawing the plough in Egypt . The painting , which is from a ...
... means ; and this attention to artificial irrigation , instead of depending for it on rain , is alluded to in Deuteronomy xi . 10. There is one instance , and one only , of men drawing the plough in Egypt . The painting , which is from a ...
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... mean principally , if not solely , Hecatæus . ( Müller ad Hecat . Fragm . Fr. 295 and 296. ) Col. Mure shows satisfactorily ( Literature of Greece , vol . iv . p . 148 , note 1 ) that this is not the case , since the persons here spoken ...
... mean principally , if not solely , Hecatæus . ( Müller ad Hecat . Fragm . Fr. 295 and 296. ) Col. Mure shows satisfactorily ( Literature of Greece , vol . iv . p . 148 , note 1 ) that this is not the case , since the persons here spoken ...
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... means " Philistine - town " ( Chronologie der Egypter , vol . i . p . 341 ) , and regards it as so called because it ... mean to exclude Egypt both from Asia and from Libya , as he shows by mentioning the ships of Neco sailing from the ...
... means " Philistine - town " ( Chronologie der Egypter , vol . i . p . 341 ) , and regards it as so called because it ... mean to exclude Egypt both from Asia and from Libya , as he shows by mentioning the ships of Neco sailing from the ...
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... means astringent , nor affecting the head ; " and Strabo gives it the additional merit of keeping to a great age . Athenæus , however , considers it inferior to the Teniotic , and that of Anthylla appears to have been preferred to it ...
... means astringent , nor affecting the head ; " and Strabo gives it the additional merit of keeping to a great age . Athenæus , however , considers it inferior to the Teniotic , and that of Anthylla appears to have been preferred to it ...
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... means the lands about the lake Mareotis , and those on the canal which communicated with the Red Sea , as well as on the E. bank of the Pelusiac branch .- [ G . W. ] 7 Herodotus was surprised that the Nile should rise in the summer ...
... means the lands about the lake Mareotis , and those on the canal which communicated with the Red Sea , as well as on the E. bank of the Pelusiac branch .- [ G . W. ] 7 Herodotus was surprised that the Nile should rise in the summer ...
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