The History of Herodotus. A new Engl. version, ed. with notes by G. Rawlinson assisted by sir H. Rawlinson and sir J.G. Wilkinson, Volume 21875 |
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... Egyptians - their strangeness ( 35 , 36 ) . Re- ligious 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 ) . Re- ligious 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 BEFORE THE REIGN OF THEIR KING PSAMMETICHUS BELIEVED THEMSELVES TO BE THE MOST ANCIENT OF MANKIND . " - Chap . 2. [ G. W. ] 1. The Egyptians from Asia . 2. Egyptian and Celtic . 3 Semitic character of Egyptian . 4. Evidences ...
... EGYPTIANS BEFORE THE REIGN OF THEIR KING PSAMMETICHUS BELIEVED THEMSELVES TO BE THE MOST ANCIENT OF MANKIND . " - Chap . 2. [ G. W. ] 1. The Egyptians from Asia . 2. Egyptian and Celtic . 3 Semitic character of Egyptian . 4. Evidences ...
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... Egyptians , and to have founded Memphis . 2. This and Memphis - Egyptians from Asia - Memphis older than Thebes . 3. Precedence of Upper Egypt . 4. Earliest notice of Thebes - Absence of early buildings . 5. Contemporary kings - Arrange ...
... Egyptians , and to have founded Memphis . 2. This and Memphis - Egyptians from Asia - Memphis older than Thebes . 3. Precedence of Upper Egypt . 4. Earliest notice of Thebes - Absence of early buildings . 5. Contemporary kings - Arrange ...
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... Egyptians . 42. 30th dynasty of Egyptians -Nectanebo II . defeated . 43. Ochus recovered Egypt . 44. Duration of the Egyptian kingdom NOTE . [ G. R. 1875. ] Page 335 394 HISTORY OF HERODOTUS . THE THIRD BOOK , ENTITLED THALIA . Causes ...
... Egyptians . 42. 30th dynasty of Egyptians -Nectanebo II . defeated . 43. Ochus recovered Egypt . 44. Duration of the Egyptian kingdom NOTE . [ G. R. 1875. ] Page 335 394 HISTORY OF HERODOTUS . THE THIRD BOOK , ENTITLED THALIA . Causes ...
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... Egyptian expedition , already designed by Cyrus ( i . 153 ) , till his fifth . This affectation of extreme anti- quity is strongly put by Plato in his Timæus ( p . 22. B ) , where the Greek nation is taxed by the Egyptians with being in ...
... Egyptian expedition , already designed by Cyrus ( i . 153 ) , till his fifth . This affectation of extreme anti- quity is strongly put by Plato in his Timæus ( p . 22. B ) , where the Greek nation is taxed by the Egyptians with being in ...
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18th dynasty according Ægyptus afterwards Amasis Amun Amunoph ancient animals Apis appears Apries Arabian Arabic Asia Assyrian Athenæus Bacchus Beni Hassan boat BOOK Bubastis Buto called canal CHAP Cheops conquests crocodile cubits custom deities Delta desert Diodorus dotus early Egyp Egypt Egyptians Elephantiné embalmed Ethiopia evidently feet Gebel Berkel goddess gods Greece Greeks head height Heliopolis Hercules Hero Herodotus Herodotus says hieroglyphics Homer honour Horus Ionians Isis Jupiter king lake land length Libya linen Manetho Memphis Menes mentioned ments Meroë miles Minerva modern monuments Moris mouth Napata Nile nome note on ch oracle Osiris Osirtasen papyrus Persians Pharaohs Phoenicians Plin Pliny Plut Plutarch priests probably Psammetichus Ptolemy pyramid Red Sea reign Remeses represented Rhampsinitus river Sabaco sacred Saïs sculptures Sebennytic Sesostris shows signifies stone Strabo supposed Syria temple Thebes Thothmes tians tion tombs town Upper viii word worshipped
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Page 132 - 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 381 - And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards. 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord ; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Page 255 - ... shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?
Page 380 - 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 176 - 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 58 - In other countries the priests have long hair, in Egypt their heads are shaven; elsewhere it is customary, in mourning, for near relations to cut their hair close: the Egyptians, who wear no hair at any other time, when they lose a relative, let their beards and the hair of their heads grow long. All other men pass their lives separate from animals, the Egyptians have animals always living with them; others make barley and wheat their food; it is a disgrace to do so in Egypt, where the grain they...
Page 190 - Rhampsinitus was possessed, they said, of great riches in silver, — indeed to such an amount, that none of the princes, his successors, surpassed or even equalled his wealth. For the better custody of this money, he proposed to build a vast chamber of hewn stone, one side of which was to form a part of the outer wall of his palace. The builder, therefore, having designs upon the treasures, contrived, as he was making...
Page 135 - 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 61 - When they write or calculate, instead of going, like the Greeks, from left to right, they move their hand from right to left; and they insist, notwithstanding, that it is they who go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the left.
Page 171 - A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous...