 | Flavius Josephus - 1889 - 584 pages
...for the first syllable live, according to the sacred dialect, denotes a king, as is SOS a shepherd ; but this according to the ordinary dialect ; and of...kings, but on the contrary denotes captive shepherds, an3 this on account of the particle HYC ; for that HYC, with the aspiration, in the Egyptian tongue,... | |
 | Robert Shaw (M. A.) - 1892 - 698 pages
...for the first syllable Hyk, according to the sacred dialect denotes .a king, as is Sos a shepherd — but this according to the ordinary dialect ; and of these is compounded Hyksos; but some say that these people were Arabians." " Now," says Josephus, " in another copy, '... | |
 | Orlando P. Schmidt - 1899 - 580 pages
...the first syllable, Hyk, according to the sacred dialect, denotes a king, as is Sos, a shepherd — but this according to the ordinary dialect; and of these is compounded Hyksos: but some say that these were Arabians." While on the subject of the meaning of the word "Hyksos,"... | |
 | Percy Stuart Peache Handcock - 1914 - 392 pages
...; for the first syllable ' Hyk,' in the sacred dialect, denotes a king, as is 'Sos' a shepherd — but this according to the ordinary dialect ; and of these is compounded ' Hyksos.' Some say they were Arabians. This people, who were styled 'kings' and 'shepherds' also,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1964 - 446 pages
...the first syllable HYC, according to the sacred dialect, denotes a king, as is SOS, a shepherd — but this according to the ordinary dialect ; and of these is compounded HYCL'/S : but some say that these people were Arabians." Now, in another copy it is said, that this... | |
 | M. a. Reverend a. R. Shilleto, Flavius Josephus - 2006 - 277 pages
...king, as does Sos a shepherd and shepherds in the ordinary dialect, and of these is compounded HTCSOS. But some say that these people were Arabians." Now, in another copy it is said, that HVC does not denote kings, but on the contrary captive shepherds ; for HVC again in the Egyptian tongue,... | |
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HYC, according to the sacred dialect, denotes a king, as is Sos, a shepherd ; but this according to the ordinary dialect ; and of these is compounded HYCSOS : but some say that these people were Arabians. 
