 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 pages
...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 any other race of men,94 and use the following ceremonies: They drink... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 pages
...learning, and disciplined themselves with rigor and zeal. Herodotus described them almost with awe: They are of all men the most excessively attentive...gods, and observe the following ceremonies. . . . They wear linen garments, constantly fresh-washed. . . . They are circumcised for the sake of cleanliness,... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 500 pages
...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 any other race of men, and use the following ceremonies: — They drink... | |
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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. They have two quite different kinds of writing, one of which is called sacred,... 
