 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them.8 Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies^ and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them.8 Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1861 - 434 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them; many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...peasants, by sewing a quantity of these scalps together." In a note, he refers to the use in Athenaeus and Euripides of the word aposcythizo, in the sense of... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them.8 Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
 | François Lenormant, Elisabeth Chevallier - 1871 - 980 Seiten
...the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 484 Seiten
...these scalps together. Others flay the right arms of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which e This custom of cutting off heads is common to many...frequently see decapitated corpses, and Assyrians carrying off the heads of their foes. (Layard's Nineveh and Babylon, pp. 447, 456, &c.) According to Diodorus... | |
 | Herodotus - 1889 - 488 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them.8 Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...cutting off heads is common to many barbarous and scmibar barous nations. In the Assyrian sculptures \ve fri'queutly sec decapitated corpses, and Assyrians... | |
 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
 | Paul R. Magocsi - 1996 - 836 Seiten
...greater the number of such napkins that a man can show, the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our...of their dead enemies, and make of the skin, which is stripped off with the nails hanging to it, a covering for their quivers. Now the skin of a man is... | |
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The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them from his bridle-rein; the greater the number of such napkins that a man can show the more highly is he esteemed among them. Many make themselves cloaks, like the capotes of our peasants, by sewing a quantity... 