Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr. .c With a Geographical and General IndexHarper & Bros., 1855 - 613 pages |
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... barbarians as being more acute and free from all foolish simplicity , and more par- ticularly as they played this trick upon the Athenians , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named ...
... barbarians as being more acute and free from all foolish simplicity , and more par- ticularly as they played this trick upon the Athenians , who are esteemed among the wisest of the Grecians . In the Pæ- anean tribe was a woman named ...
Page 75
... barbarians . But a dispute having arisen between Sarpedon and Minos , sons of Europa , respect- ing the sovereign power , when Minos got the upper hand in the struggle , he drove out Sarpedon with his partisans ; and they , being ...
... barbarians . But a dispute having arisen between Sarpedon and Minos , sons of Europa , respect- ing the sovereign power , when Minos got the upper hand in the struggle , he drove out Sarpedon with his partisans ; and they , being ...
Page 92
... barbarians ; and I am informed that it took place in the following manner : it is related that , first of all , they stood at a distance and used their bows , and that afterward , when they had emptied their quivers , they engaged in ...
... barbarians ; and I am informed that it took place in the following manner : it is related that , first of all , they stood at a distance and used their bows , and that afterward , when they had emptied their quivers , they engaged in ...
Page 115
... barbarians I find on inquiry to be the case ; and I think they chiefly pro- ceeded from Egypt ; for , with the exception of Neptune and the Dioscuri , as I before mentioned , and Juno , Vesta , Themis , the Graces , and the Nereids ...
... barbarians I find on inquiry to be the case ; and I think they chiefly pro- ceeded from Egypt ; for , with the exception of Neptune and the Dioscuri , as I before mentioned , and Juno , Vesta , Themis , the Graces , and the Nereids ...
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... barbarians , and they seemed to them to chatter like birds ; but after a time , when the woman spoke intelligibly to them , they presently reported that the dove had spoken with a human voice ; for as long as she used a barbarous ...
... barbarians , and they seemed to them to chatter like birds ; but after a time , when the woman spoke intelligibly to them , they presently reported that the dove had spoken with a human voice ; for as long as she used a barbarous ...
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