 | Edward Clodd - 1900 - 250 mga pahina
...Phoenician script be no exception to this, search must be made for its earlier forms. Tradition asserted that " the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves...admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt." So says Eusebius, and the same tradition has currency among classic authorities from Plato to Tacitus,... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1923 - 860 mga pahina
...explained by means of pictorial ALPHABET 187 ideograms. Traditions were current from Plato to Tacitus that ' the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves...but admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt ; ' while in modern times not a few attempts nad been vainly made to derive the several Phoenician... | |
 | Moustafa Gadalla - 2007 - 320 mga pahina
...83], separates the facts from fiction: The tradition of the ancient world, which assigned to Phoenicia the glory of the invention of letters, declared also,...may suffice to quote the words of Tacitus, who says, "Prim i per figures animalium Aegyptii sensus mentis effingebant; (ea antiquissima monimenta memoriae... | |
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Sanchuniathon, from which we gather that the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves the inventors of the art of writing, but admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt. 