The History of Herodotus, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1890 |
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Pagina 152 - The art of medicine among them is distributed thus:- each physician is a physician of one disease and of no more; and the whole country is full of physicians, for some profess themselves to be physicians of the eyes, others of the head, others of the teeth, others of the affections of the stomach, and others of the more obscure ailments.
Pagina 307 - Heracles and arrived again in Egypt. And they reported a thing which I cannot believe, but another man may, namely that in sailing round Libya* they had the sun on their right hand.
Pagina 173 - They were also the first to broach the opinion that the soul of man is immortal, and that when the body dies, it enters into the form of an animal which is born at the moment, thence passing on from one animal into another until it has circled through the forms of all the creatures which tenant the earth, the water, and the air ; after which it enters again into a human frame, and is born anew.
Pagina 124 - Some of the Greeks, however, wishing to get a reputation for cleverness, have offered explanations of the phenomena of the river, for which they have accounted in three different ways. Two of these I do not think it worth while to speak of, further than simply to mention what they are.
Pagina 174 - This pyramid was made after the manner of steps, which some called "rows" and others "bases": and when they had first made it thus, they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber, raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps, and when the stone got up to this it was placed...
Pagina 309 - Caspatyrus and the Pactyic country, and sailed down the river towards the east and the sunrise till they came to the sea; and voyaging over the sea westwards, they came in the thirtieth month to that place whence the Egyptian king sent the Phoenicians afore-mentioned to sail round Libya. After this circumnavigation Darius subdued the Indians and made use of this sea. Thus it was discovered that Asia, saving the parts towards the rising sun, was in other respects like Libya.
Pagina 330 - tied sixty knots in a thong, saying: 'Men of Ionia ... do ye keep this thong and do as I shall say : — so soon as ye shall have seen me go forward against the Scythians, from that time begin and untie a knot on each day ; and if within this time I am not here, and ye find that the days marked by the knots have passed by, then sail away to your own lands '