The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Band 3D. Appleton, 1880 |
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Seite 34 - the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage home. On their return, they declared—I for my part do not believe them, but perhaps others may— that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand.
Seite 477 - recorded, established in his honour yearly sacrifices and a torch-race. 106. On the occasion of which we speak, when Pheidippides •was sent by the Athenian generals, and, according to his own account, saw Pan on his journey, he reached Sparta on the very next day after quitting the city of Athens.
Seite 33 - and for breadth will not even (as I think) bear to be compared to them. As for Libya, we know it to be washed on all sides by the sea, except where it is attached to Asia. This discovery was first made by Ñecos,
Seite 30 - For my part, I cannot but laugh when I see numbers of persons drawing maps of the world without having any reason to guide them ; making, as they do, the ocean-stream to run all round the earth, and the earth itself to be an exact circle, as if described by a pair of compasses,
Seite 209 - most tenderly ; the friends of each eagerly plead on her behalf, and she to whom the honour is adjudged, after receiving the praises both of men and women, is slain over the grave by the hand of her next of kin, and then buried with her husband.
Seite 34 - The Phoenicians took their departure from Egypt by way of the Erythraean Sea, and so sailed into the southern ocean. When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land
Seite 486 - 115. Nevertheless the Athenians secured in this way seven of the vessels ; while with the remainder the barbarians pushed off, and taking aboard their Eretrian prisoners from the island where they had left them, doubled Cape Sunium, hoping to reach Athens before the return of the Athenians. The
Seite 209 - and the want of it low birth. To be idle is accounted the most honourable thing, and to be a tiller of the ground the most dishonourable. To live by war and plunder is of all •$ things the most glorious. These are the most remarkable of their customs. 7. The gods which they worship are but three,
Seite 484 - eight furlongs. The Persians, therefore, when they saw the Greeks coming on at speed, made ready to receive them, although it seemed to them that the Athenians were bereft of their senses, and bent upon their own destruction ; for
Seite 216 - and they likewise who inhabited Lake Prasias, were not conquered by Megabazus. He sought indeed to subdue the dwellers upon the lake, but could not effect his purpose. Their manner of living ia the following. Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a