Desert, was a small and beautiful spot, or Oasis, as it is called, refreshed by streams and shade, and luxuriant with verdure, in which was the celebrated temple of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter,... Geographia Classica: Or, The Application of Ancient Geography to the Classics - Seite 196von Samuel Butler - 1835 - 238 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Samuel Butler - 1813 - 350 Seiten
...advanced frontier of /Egypt. South of Marmarica, in the midst of the sands of the Libyan Desert, vyas a small and beautiful spot, or Oasis, as it is called,...the Fons Solis, whose waters were cold at noon and Jiot at night.* Here was the antient and much-famed; * Esse apud Ammonis fanum fons luce diurna Frigidus,... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1821 - 152 Seiten
...advanced frontier of Egypt. South of Marmarica, in the sands of the Libyan Desert was a beautiful little spot, or Oasis, as it is called, refreshed by streams...the form of a ram, and showed him a fountain, when he and his army were perishing with thirst. Here was Fons Solig, whose waters were said to be cold... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 Seiten
...refreshed by streams, and luxuriant with verdure, in which stood the Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus,...gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain. Here was the Fons Solis,... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 Seiten
...luxuriant with verdure, in which stood the Temple (so celebrated in antiquity) of Jupiter Hamilton, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, and shewed him a fountain. Here was the Fons Sous,... | |
| 1821 - 734 Seiten
...and luxuriant with verdure, in which stood the Temple, BO celebrated in antiquity, of Jupiter Ammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to his father Jupiter, who 1821.] Antiquarian Researches. 853 wbo appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of... | |
| 1821 - 970 Seiten
...refreshed by streams, and luxuriant with verdure, in which stood the temple, so celebrated in antiquity, of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus, in gratitude to bis rather Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of • ram, nnd showed... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 502 Seiten
...refreshed by streams, :nnl luxuriant with verdure, in which stood the temple, so celebrated in antiquity, of Jupiter Hammon, said to have been founded by Bacchus,...gratitude to his father Jupiter, who appeared to him, when perishing with thirst, in the form of a ram, mid showed him a fountain. liere was the Fons 8oils,... | |
| William Shaler - 1824 - 116 Seiten
...the Libyan deserts with his army, on his way to India, and perishing with thirst, implored the aid of his father Jupiter, who appeared to him in the form of a ram, and scratching the earth with his foot, a spring of water immediately spouted up. Thus, all the accounts... | |
| 1832 - 614 Seiten
...the Libyan deserts with his army, on his way to India, and perishing with thirst, implored the aid of his father Jupiter, who appeared to him in the form of a ram, and scratching the earth with his foot, a spring of water immediately spouted up. Thus, all the accounts... | |
| Samuel Butler (bp. of Lichfield and Coventry.) - 1851 - 474 Seiten
...the Hammonii and Libya Interior on the south. We need only notice here Parsetonium, now Al-Baretoun, which was considered as a sort of advanced frontier...Solis, whose waters were cold at noon and hot at night *, and the antient and much-famed oracle, so difficult and dangerous of access through the Libyan Deserts... | |
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