 | New Zealand Institute - 1897 - 788 pages
...The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Bed Sea, navigated the southern sea. When autumu came they went ashore and sowed the land, by whatever...sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known, "t Evidently it is unnecessary to go outside Polynesia in order to discover people who were capable... | |
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 pages
...Phoenicians in ships, with orders to sail back through the Pillars of Hercules into the northern sea,1 and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians, accordingly,...sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known. Subsequently the Carthaginians say that Libya is surrounded by water. For Sataspes, son of Teaspes,... | |
 | 1889 - 768 pages
...that he does not believe the statement made by the men who, on returning from this long voyage, said that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. We find, however, other evidences of ancient voyages of Phoenician merchant vessels, which have left,... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1901 - 252 pages
...sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for the harvest; and having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When...sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known. — HERODOTUS: Melpomene, 42. ILLUSTRATIONS ITHOBAL Frontispiece But Nesta bent upon me those dark... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1901 - 200 pages
...sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for the harvest; and having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When...the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known.—HERODOTUS : Melpomene, 42. THE VOYAGE OF ITHOBAL BY SIR EDWIN ^ARNOLD, KCIE, CSI AUTHOR OF... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1902 - 274 pages
...doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and arrived in Egypt again, reporting, what Herodotus does not believe, that as they sailed round Libya they had the sun on their right hand. Necho II. may have carried out works of this kind during his father's lifetime, and if so, this fact... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1907 - 598 pages
...directions (41—3). Here occurs the striking sentence: these Phoenician sailors after their return related "what to me does not seem credible, but may...round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." This statement, so dubious to the historian, is now the strongest proof of the circumnavigation, So... | |
 | 1908 - 750 pages
...sea (Mediterranean) and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the lied sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came,...round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." The date of the voyage, after the making of the Nile-Suez canal, agrees to the eighth year of the inscription.... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1909 - 350 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... | |
 | Frank Deaville Walker - 1911 - 448 pages
...Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but to others may, that as they sailed round Libya they had the sun on their right hand."— (Melpomene, 41-42.) But notwithstanding the doubt in the historian's mind there is every reason to... | |
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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, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed,... 
