 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 Seiten
...Cleomenes, after reigning no great length of time, died without male offspring, leaving behind him a single daughter, by name Gorgo.4 49. Cleomenes, however,...these words following : — " Think it not strange, O King Cleomenes, that I have been at the pains to sail hither ; for the posture of affairs, which... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 486 Seiten
...Cleomenes, after reigning no great length of time, died without male offspring, leaving behind him a single daughter, by name Gorgo.4 49. Cleomenes, however,...interview, Aristagoras, according to the report of the Lacedœmonians, produced a bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with... | |
 | 1880 - 902 Seiten
...Sparta, to induce him to invade Persia, produced before the Spartan king " a bronze tablet, upon which the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers." Hecataeus, who lived in the same century with Anaximander, is believed to have corrected and... | |
 | sir Richard Francis Burton - 1881 - 388 Seiten
...Anaxiraander (BC 600-530), and were improved by Hecataeus. Aristagoras (Herod, v. 79), carried to Sparta a " bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved with all its seas and rivers." Says the disciple of Socrates in "The Clouds," "See, here is a plan of the whole earth." topographies... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1881 - 386 Seiten
...Anaximander (BC 600-530), and were improved by Hecataeus. Aristagoras (Herod, v. 79), carried to Sparta a " bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved with all its seas and rivers." Says the disciple of Socrates in "The Clouds," "See, here is a plan of the whole earth." topographies... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1881 - 386 Seiten
...Anaximander (BC 600-530), and were improved by Hecataeus. Aristagoras (Herod, v. 79), carried to Sparta a " bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved with all its seas and rivers." Says the disciple of Socrates in "The Clouds," "See, here is a plan of the whole earth." topographies... | |
 | 1881 - 526 Seiten
...Sparta, to induce him to invade Persia, he produced before the Spartan King " a bronze tablet, upon which the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers." It has, until recently, been fashionable amongst historical critics to repudiate many of the... | |
 | Aratus (of Soli.) - 1885 - 150 Seiten
...noticed, was the abode of the sages above mentioned, cir. BC 500, produced to Kleomenes of Sparta ' a bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers.' 2 This tablet was apincut, a term meaning (1) a board ; (2) a plate or wooden trencher ; (3)... | |
 | Henry Fanshawe Tozer - 1897 - 450 Seiten
...between the sea-coast of Asia Minor and that country : and that he might explain this more clearly, he produced "a bronze tablet whereupon the whole circuit of the Earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers'." On this he pointed out to the king with his finger the position of the different peoples... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1899 - 396 Seiten
...uranographic and geographic. Thus, HC-rodotos (v. 49) states that Aristagoras produced toKleomenes of Sparta 'a bronze tablet, whereupon the whole circuit of the earth was engraved, with all its seas and rivers.' Before proceeding to consider the constellations as they appear in the ' tragic triad of immortal... | |
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Discourse began between the two, and Aristagoras addressed the Spartan king in these words following : — " Think it not strange, O King Cleomenes, that I have been at the pains to sail hither ; for the posture of affairs, which I will now recount unto... 
