 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1854 - 702 pages
...they arrived in Aegypt, and related what does not seem credible to me, but which may be believed by others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 2 In order to arrive at the practicability of the Exammundertaking, we shall first examine into the... | |
 | George Smith - 1854 - 696 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirmed that, having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya for the first time known." — Melpomene, cap. 42. In this relation of the father of history, it is... | |
 | George Smith - 1855 - 676 pages
...relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirmed that, having sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya for the first time known." — Melpomene, cap. 42. In this relation -of the father of history, it is... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 486 pages
...year of their voyage, having sailed through the Pillars of Hercules*, they reached Egypt, and declared that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." Herodotus knew not what to make of this story, especially of the relation of the Phoenicians that after... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 650 pages
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes it probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south... | |
 | 1857 - 556 pages
...Herakles and arrived in Egypt, relating things, which Herodotus naively remarks, " do not seem to me credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." An attempt was afterwards made to circumnavigate Libya by one Sataspcs, of the Achaemenidae or royal... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 652 pages
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes it probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south... | |
 | Frank Boott Goodrich - 1858 - 656 pages
...Egypt. This story may be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible, for they affirm that when they sailed round Libya they had the sun on their right hand." In the time of Herodotus, the Greeks were unacquainted with the phenomenon of a shadow falling to the... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1859 - 326 pages
...circumnavigated Africa, inasmuch as " they told me," said he, " what I can't believe, though others may, — that as they sailed round Libya they had the sun on their right." But he was, on the other hand, hoaxed into believing that the inscription on one of the larger pyramids... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1861 - 634 pages
...attention from others, bnt to me it seems incredible ;' for they affirmed that, having sailed ronnd Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. — Thus was Libya for the first time known. — Beloe. ASTABANUS DISSUADES XERXES FROM HIS PROPOSED EXPEDITION AGAINST... | |
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Hercules into the northern sea,7 and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing,... 
