King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the ... History of the world by Orosius, containing a preface, notes, a literal Engl. tr., mr. Hampson's Essay on king Alfred's geography [&c.] by J. Bosworth, Volume 2

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Page 37 - Germania. 12. Then to the north, from the spring of the Danube, and to the east of the Rhine are the East Franks ; and to the south of them are the Suabians, on the other side of the river Danube. To the south and to the east are the Bavarians, that part which is called Ratisbon.
Page 43 - The Cwenas sometimes make war on the Northmen over the waste ; sometimes the Northmen on them. There are very large fresh water meers beyond the wastes ; and the Cwenas carry their boats over land into the meers, and thence make war on the Northmen. They have very little boats, and very light.
Page 162 - Caius, his nephew, went from Egypt into Syria, — Augustus had given it to him to govern — then he would not worship the Almighty God, when he came to Jerusalem. When Augustus was told of it, he praised that pride and blamed it not a whit. Soon afterwards, the Romans paid for this word with so great a famine, that Augustus drove from Rome half that were within it. Then the door of Janus was opened again, because the leaders in many countries disagreed with Augustus, although no battle took place....
Page 171 - One' thousand and twenty-five years after the building of Rome [Orosius and Alfred AD 272 : Clinton 268], Claudius succeeded to the government of the Romans. In the same year, he overcame the Goths and drove them out of Greece. The Romans made him a golden shield, as a worthy tribute for that deed, and a golden likeness, and hung them up in their Capitol. In the following year he died, and his brother Quintillus succeeded to the government; and, on the seventeenth day after, he was put to death....
Page 127 - BC 264—242. hundred of Hannibal's people, and took thirty of his ships, and sank thirteen in the sea, and put [Hannibal] himself to flight. 3. Afterwards the Poeni, who are the Carthaginians, set Hanno over their ships, as Hannibal had been before, that he might guard the islands of Sardinia and Corsica against the Romans. He soon after fought against them with a fleet and was slain. 4. In the year...
Page 53 - Then each rides away with the property, and may keep it all ; and, therefore, swift horses are there uncommonly dear. When his property is thus all spent, then they carry him out, and burn him with his weapons and clothes.
Page 42 - He [Ohthere] was a very wealthy man in those possessions in which their wealth consists, that is in the wilder animals. He had, moreover, when he came to the king, six hundred tame deer of his own breeding.
Page 39 - North-Danes,'" both on the continent and on the islands : to the east of them are the Afdrede'' ; and to the south of them is the mouth of the river Elbe, with some part of the Old Saxons.'' The NorthDanes have to the north «of them the same arm of the sea called the Baltic" : to the east of them are the Esthonian population ; and the Afdraede to the south.
Page 144 - Romans gave orders to the senate to build them a theatre for plays ; but Scipio often sent orders home that they should not begin it; and also, when he came home from Spain, he himself said, that it would be the greatest folly, and the greatest mistake. Then the Romans, by...
Page 39 - This whale is much less than other whales: it is not longer than seven ells; but, in his own country, is the best whale-hunting: they are eight and forty ells long, and the largest fifty ells long; of these, he said, that he was one of six, who killed sixty in two days.

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