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Pagina 7
... observe the Scythian customs . In the age preceding this invasion of Darius , they were compelled to change their habitations , from the multitude of serpents which infested them : besides what their own soil produced , these came 112 ...
... observe the Scythian customs . In the age preceding this invasion of Darius , they were compelled to change their habitations , from the multitude of serpents which infested them : besides what their own soil produced , these came 112 ...
Pagina 8
... observed in Vol . II . p . 369. It has been sup- posed by some , that this idea might arise from the circum- stance of these people clothing themselves in the skins of wolves during the colder months of winter ; but this is rejected by ...
... observed in Vol . II . p . 369. It has been sup- posed by some , that this idea might arise from the circum- stance of these people clothing themselves in the skins of wolves during the colder months of winter ; but this is rejected by ...
Pagina 17
... observed that these Sauromate of the Greeks were the Samnites of the Romans . 124 Killed an enemy . ] - The account which Hippocrates gives is somewhat different : the women of the Sauromata mount on horseback , draw the bow , lance the ...
... observed that these Sauromate of the Greeks were the Samnites of the Romans . 124 Killed an enemy . ] - The account which Hippocrates gives is somewhat different : the women of the Sauromata mount on horseback , draw the bow , lance the ...
Pagina 24
... observed , that before their own country had suffered any injury from the in- . vaders , the Scythians had taken care to distress the lands of their neighbours ; they accordingly * Notwithstanding this was the only Scythian nation that ...
... observed , that before their own country had suffered any injury from the in- . vaders , the Scythians had taken care to distress the lands of their neighbours ; they accordingly * Notwithstanding this was the only Scythian nation that ...
Pagina 26
... observed this custom . Summum apud antiquos signum victoriæ erat herbam por- rigere victos , hoc est terra et altrice ipsâ humo et humatione etiam cedere ; quem morem etiam nunc durare apud Ger- manos scio . - Festus and Servius , upon ...
... observed this custom . Summum apud antiquos signum victoriæ erat herbam por- rigere victos , hoc est terra et altrice ipsâ humo et humatione etiam cedere ; quem morem etiam nunc durare apud Ger- manos scio . - Festus and Servius , upon ...
Parole e frasi comuni
Ægina Ægyptian afterwards Agathyrsi amongst ancient Apollo appeared Arcesilaus Argives Argos Aristagoras Ariston army arrived Artabanus Artaphernes Asia Athe Athenæus Athenians Athens attack Attica authority Barceans battle Battus betwixt called celebrated Chersonese Cleomenes Clisthenes command countrymen custom Cyrene Cyreneans Darius daughter death deity Delphi Demaratus endeavoured enemy engaged expedition fleet gold Grecian Greece Greeks Hellespont Herodotus Hippias Histiæus Homer honour horses hundred inhabitants Ionians island Jupiter king Lacedæmon Lacedæmonians land Lemnos Libya Marathon Mardonius master Medes Megabyzus ment mentioned Milesians Miletus Miltiades Minerva Nasamones nations nians observed occasion opinion oracle Pæonians particular passage passed Pausanias Persians Phoenicians Pisistratidæ Pisistratus Pliny Plutarch possessed prince Pythian reader remarkable Rennell reply retired river sacred Sardis says Larcher Scythians sent ships Sparta stadia Strabo Susa temple Thrace tion took tribes vessels victory Virgil whilst wives women word Xerxes
Brani popolari
Pagina 475 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Pagina 356 - I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Pagina 357 - Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Pagina 99 - And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Pagina 115 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Pagina 311 - And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said, Thus saith the Lord, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have consumed them.
Pagina 356 - This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth...
Pagina 101 - And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
Pagina 121 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.
Pagina 270 - We greet not here as man conversing man, Met at an oak, or journeying o'er a plain; No season now for calm familiar talk, Like youths and maidens in an evening walk; War is our business, but to whom is given To die or triumph, that determine Heaven!