The History of Herodotus, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1904 |
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Pagina 148 - Sun; and he conveys him thus:—he forms first an egg of myrrh as large as he is able to carry, and then he makes trial of carrying it, and when he has made trial sufficiently, then he hollows out the egg and places his father within it and plasters over with other myrrh that part of the egg where he hollowed it out to put...
Pagina 379 - HORACE— THE WORKS OF HORACE, rendered into English Prose, with Introductions, Running Analysis, and Notes, by J.
Pagina 379 - THE ILIAD. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by WALTER LEAF, MA, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the late JH PRATT, MA 8vo.
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 196 - ... goddess, stretching along the whole wall of it; and in the sacred enclosure stand great obelisks of stone, and near them is a lake adorned with an edging of stone and fairly made in a circle, being in size, as it seemed to me, equal to that which is called the "Round Pool
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 '