 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...could not effect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following. Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the paeones, who possessed the most fertile and exposed... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 Seiten
...could not effect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following. Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the раюпев, who possessed the most fertile and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 Seiten
...the amphibious inhabitants of Lake Prasias, described by Herodotus. " Platforms supported upon tall piles' stand in the middle of the lake, which are...single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear np the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time... | |
 | 1862 - 620 Seiten
...Rawlinson's translation : — ' Their manner of living is the following : platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached...about fixing them is this. They are brought from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in three for every wife that he marries. Now the men have... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...Pangœum, not iu OrbClus, aa appears from vii. 112. CHAP. 15-16. INHABITANTS OF LAKE PRASIAS. upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole... | |
 | John Johnston Kelso - 1865 - 92 Seiten
...are approached from the land by asingle narrow bridge. At the first, piles which bear up the platform were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but afterwards the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this : — They are brought from a hill... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 486 Seiten
...î) 186 THEIR DWELLINGS AND CUSTOMS. BOOK V. are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms...fixing them is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orbelus,' and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have... | |
 | Ferdinand Keller - 1866 - 650 Seiten
...could not efiect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following : platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached...by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles whichbear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens ; but since... | |
 | 1867 - 590 Seiten
...on Prasias, the modern Takhyno, where the men lived on " platforms supported on tall piles, standing in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. . . . Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells upon one of the platforms, and each has also a trap-door,... | |
 | Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1868 - 286 Seiten
...could not effect his purpose. Their manner of living is the following : platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached...about fixing them is this : they are brought from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have... | |
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Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since... 
