 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...doing so, they say they do it xight-ways, and the Greeks left-ways. They have two sorts of letters, one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods, and observe the following ceremonies.... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...doing so, they say they do it right-ways, and the Greeks left-ways. They have two sorts of letters, one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are of all men the most excessively attentive to the worship of the gods, and observe the following ceremonies.... | |
 | Herodotus - 1858 - 658 pages
...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...which they scour every day : there is no exception to this practice. They wear linen garments, which they are specially careful to have always fresh washed.9... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 552 pages
...called by them "Hindee," "Indian"), and there the arrangement is as in our own, 133 bring No. IL 81 234 the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing,5 one of which is called sacred, the other common. 3*7. They are religious to excess, far beyond... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 548 pages
...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...use the following ceremonies : — They drink out of here mentioned. The Greeks also in old times wrote from right to left, like the Phoenicians, from whom... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 548 pages
...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. They have two quite different kinds of writing,' one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are religious to excess, far beyond... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 560 pages
..."Hinclee," "Indian"), and there the arrangement is as in our own, 133 being • 1П 99 8l ffií 2 ЗА '3 \ the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite different kinds of writing,' one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are religious to excess, far beyond... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 556 pages
..."Indian"), and there the arrangement is as in our own, 133 being 11199 if\9§> 3 t 52 SUPERSTITION. BOOK II. the Greeks who go to the left. They have two quite...use the following ceremonies : — They drink out of hrazen cups/ which they scour every day : there is no exception to this practice. They wear linen garments,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1880 - 660 pages
...called by them "Hindee," "Indian "), and there the arrangement is as in our own, 133 being Indian, 133. who go to the right, and the Greeks who go to the...writing,6 one of which is called sacred, the other common. 87. They are religious to excess, far beyond any other race of men,7 and use the following ceremonies... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 pages
...doing so, they say they do it right-ways, and the Greeks left-ways. They have two sorts of letters, one of which is called sacred, the other common. 37. They are of all men the most excessively attentive t« the worship of the gods, and observe the following ceremonies.... | |
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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. 
