| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 424 pages
...high-piled store Of rich MyceniE, and if he ransack wide earth for more, Search old Orchomenus for gold, and by the fertile stream Where, in Egyptian Thebes, the...with steeds and cars march through each massy gate. No ! not though he shower on my head gifts thick as dust or sand, Shall my obedient will be led within... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 476 pages
...were vain ; the high- piled store Of rich Mycenae, and if he ransack wide earth for more, cso wit! The hundred-gated Thebes, where twice ten score in...with steeds and cars march through each massy gate. No ! not though he shower on my head gifts thick as dust or Shall my obedient will be led within his... | |
| Julius Chambers - 1901 - 352 pages
...river. The circumference of its walls must have exceeded fifty miles. Homer thus refers to its size : "The hundred-gated Thebes, where twice ten score in...with steeds and cars march through each massy gate." Thebes had half a million dwelling-houses and vast public squares about its palaces. Long vistas of... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1902 - 706 pages
...pil'd store Of rich Myeente, and if he ransack wide earth for more, Search old Orchomemis for gold, and by the fertile stream Where, in Egyptian Thebes, the...men with steeds and cars march through each massy gate.11 (Blaclrie's Tramlalion.) (p. 203) affected Thebes but slightly. Its ruined temj : built under... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1902 - 744 pages
...pil'd store Of rich Mycena>, and if he ransack wide earth for more, Search old Orchomenus for gold, and by the fertile stream Where, in Egyptian Thebes, the...hundred-gated Thebes, where twice ten score in martial stale Of valiant men with steeds and cars march through each massy gate." (Blactie't Trantlalion. )... | |
| Elbert Eli Farman - 1904 - 500 pages
...years later the blind Ionian bard sung of its wealth and power : " Search old Orchomenus for gold, and by the fertile stream Where in Egyptian Thebes, the...with steeds and cars march through each massy gate." Twice it was captured by the Assyrians under their mad king, Essarhaddon and his son Asshurbanipal.... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - 1914 - 782 pages
...pil'd store Of rich Mycenae, and if he ransack wide earth for more, Search old Orchomenus for gold, and by the fertile stream "Where, in Egyptian Thebes,...twice ten score in martial state Of valiant men with iteeds and cars march through each massy gate." (Blactie's Traatlation.) The epithet IxaTOfAjtuXoi;,... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1918 - 928 pages
...The Mortuary Chapels of the Theban Nobles. WHEN Achilles, in the ninth book of " Iliad," told of^ " Hundred-gated Thebes where twice ten score in martial...with steeds and cars march through each massy gate," this famed capital of one of the mightiest Empires of the East could look back on a thousand years... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1918 - 928 pages
...JPMAFRSEMRI The Mortuary Chapels of the Theban Nobles. WHEN Achilles, in the ninth book of "Iliad," told of " Hundred-gated Thebes where twice ten score in martial state Of valiant men with steeds and cars inarch through each massy gate," this famed capital of one of the mightiest Empires of the East could... | |
| Joan Conquest - 1922 - 334 pages
...the last ride to the love in his heart. CHAPTER XVII "The hundred-gated Thebes, where twice ten-score in martial state Of valiant men with steeds and cars march through each massy gate." There was no moon to break the shadows in the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Amnon ; neither... | |
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