The Father of History: An Account of HerodotusSigma publishing Company, 1907 - 451 pages |
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The Father of History: An Account of Herodotus (Classic Reprint) Denton J. Snider No preview available - 2019 |
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Page 245 - ... when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed, in the third, having doubled the pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand.
Page 301 - Pallas." 78. The Athenians accordingly increased in power. And equality of rights shows, not in one 2 " Feeders of horses." instance only, but in every way, what an excellent thing it is. For the Athenians, when governed by tyrants, were superior in war to none of their neighbours ; but when freed from tyrants, became by far the first ; this, then, shows that as long as they were oppressed they purposely acted as cowards, as labouring for a master ; but when they were free every man was zealous to...
Page 195 - Neither has the King of Persia sent you with these presents to me because he valued my alliance, nor do you speak the truth, for you are come as spies of my kingdom. Nor is he a just man; for if he were just he would not desire any other territory than his own; nor would he reduce people into servitude who have done him no injury. However, give him this bow, and say these words to him: 'The King of the Ethiopians advises the King of the Persians, when the Persians can thus easily draw a bow of this...
Page 59 - Beginning from the age of five years to twenty, they instruct their sons in three things only ; to ride, to use the bow, and to speak truth. Before he is five years of age, a son is not admitted to the presence of his father, but lives entirely with the women : the reason of this custom is, that if he should die in childhood, he may occasion no grief to his father. 137.
Page 351 - ... the shore, he beheld both the land army and the fleet ; and when he beheld them, he desired to see a contest take place between the ships ; and when it had taken place, and the Sidonian Phoenicians were victorious, he showed himself exceedingly gratified both with the contest and the army.
Page 255 - But the opinion of Gobryas, one of the seven who had deposed the Magus, did not coincide with this ; he conjectured that the presents intimated : ' Unless, O Persians, ye become birds, and fly into the air, or become mice and hide yourselves beneath the earth, or become frogs and leap into the lakes, ye shall never return home again, but be stricken by these arrows.
Page 212 - ... commit the government to the Persians at large, speaking as follows : " It appears that no one of us should henceforward be a monarch, for it is neither agreeable nor good. For you know to what a pitch the insolence of Cambyses reached, and you have experienced the insolence of the magus. And indeed how can a monarchy be a wellconstituted government, where one man is allowed to do whatever he pleases without control ? for if even the best of men were placed in such power, he would depart from...
Page 323 - But the Persian pursued his own design, for the servant continually reminded him to remember the Athenians, and the Pisistratidae constantly importuned him and accused the Athenians ; and at the same time Darius, laying hold of this pretext, was desirous of subduing those people of Greece who had refused to give him earth and water.
Page 345 - ... well enough. (3.) For these reasons, therefore, I have resolved to make war upon them. And on reflection, I find the following advantages in this course : if we shall subdue them, and their neighbours, who inhabit the country of Pelops the Phrygian, we shall make the Persian territory co-extensive with the air of heaven ; nor will the sun look down upon any land that borders on ours ; but I, with your assistance, will make them all one territory, marching through the whole of Europe. For I am...
Page 232 - ... I need hardly tell the student of history that this is exactly the ground which was taken up, and with far greater plausibility and better excuse, by the promoters of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew. They said : " We have evidence, and are convinced, that these Huguenots are plotting against us. If we do not put them down, they will put us down. Let us be first at the work and crush them.