 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orb^lus,8 and every man drives in three for each wife that he...very short time, when up he draws it quite full of them.1 The that the platforms were finally destroyed by fire (Lettre de M. Troyon, p. 7), abundance... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 Seiten
...custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orb61us,9 and every man drives in three for each wife that he...very short time, when up he draws it quite full of them.1 The that the platforms were finally destroyed by fire (Lettre de M. Troyon, p. 7), abundance... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1860 - 582 Seiten
...bodies were carried downwards by the flood into the crevices and hollows of the country below. The bones fish, which abound in the lake to such a degree that...basket by a rope into the water, and then to wait > very short time, when up he draws it quite full of them." — Book V. ( Terpsichore, ) chup. xvi.... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...PERSIAN EMBASSY TO MACEDONIA. BOOK. V. hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the platforms, and each bas also a trap-door giving access to the lake beneath...the water, and then to wait a very short time, when he draws it up quite full of them.1 The fish are of two kinds, which they call the paprax and the tilon.2... | |
 | 1864 - 862 Seiten
...along with Latimer and others, largely contributed to the advance of the Protestant cause during the that a man has only to open his trap-door, and to let down a basket by a rope into the water, arid then to wait a very short time, when he draws it up quite full of them. The tish are of two kinds,... | |
 | John Johnston Kelso - 1865 - 92 Seiten
...with a string, to save them from rolling into the water. They feed their horses and other beastsupon fish, which abound in the lake to such a degree that...short time, when up he draws it quite full of them. — Book entitled Terpsischore, Rawlinson's Translation, vol. iii., p. 226. " .Recent discoveries in... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 486 Seiten
...range of Scomius (vü. p. 478). .etb-Xi, // "/¡ '•' ' CHAP. 17. PERSIAN EMBASSY TO MACEDONIA. 187 lake beneath ; and their wont is to tie their baby...very short time, when up he draws it quite full of them.1 The fish are of two kinds, which they call the paprax and the tilon.3 17. The Pœonians 3 therefore... | |
 | 1867 - 590 Seiten
...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...short time, when up he draws it, quite full of them." (v. 16. Rawlinson's translation.) "We could hardly have expected that any remains of such perishable... | |
 | 1868 - 858 Seiten
...has also a trapdoor giving access to the lake beneath ; and their wont is to tie their baby-children by the foot with a string, to save them from rolling...the water, and then to wait a very short time, when he draws it up quite full of them. The fish are of two kinds, which they call the paprax and the tilon.'... | |
 | 1868 - 854 Seiten
...lake to such a degree, that a man has only to open his trap-door, and to let down a basket by a roce into the water, and then to wait a very short time, when he draws it up quite full of them. The fish are of two kinds, which they call the paprax and the tilon.'... | |
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Now the men have all many wives apiece; and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he dwells, upon one of the platforms, and each has also a trapdoor giving access to the lake beneath; and their wont is to tie their baby children... 
