Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the History of Herodotus, with a Chronological Table, Volume 2Whittaker, 1844 - History, Ancient |
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... answer , 1. that to predict the eclipse of the sun on the 9th July , 597 B. C. , it was not necessary to be perfectly acquainted with the obliquity of the sun's course for all the different latitudes ; it was suffi- cient to know the ...
... answer , 1. that to predict the eclipse of the sun on the 9th July , 597 B. C. , it was not necessary to be perfectly acquainted with the obliquity of the sun's course for all the different latitudes ; it was suffi- cient to know the ...
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... answer to the same season in Greece , he ima- gined that the Phoenicians sowed in autumn , though the mariners had said nothing of that particular in their account . Herodotus has cer- tainly committed an error , very excusable for the ...
... answer to the same season in Greece , he ima- gined that the Phoenicians sowed in autumn , though the mariners had said nothing of that particular in their account . Herodotus has cer- tainly committed an error , very excusable for the ...
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... answered him , ' That reproach dishonours my country , but you are yourself a dishonour to yours . ' We find in the Collection of the Letters of the Philosophers and Orators , published by Aldus , cer- tain letters under the name of ...
... answered him , ' That reproach dishonours my country , but you are yourself a dishonour to yours . ' We find in the Collection of the Letters of the Philosophers and Orators , published by Aldus , cer- tain letters under the name of ...
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... answer which I give to Chardin will apply to what Major Rennell has said of the length of the Euxine sea . I do not dispute with this learned writer the correctness of the dimensions of that sea as given by him ; but I cannot agree with ...
... answer which I give to Chardin will apply to what Major Rennell has said of the length of the Euxine sea . I do not dispute with this learned writer the correctness of the dimensions of that sea as given by him ; but I cannot agree with ...
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... answered , Those who have ceased to make war . ' For though there had ceased to be a king in Thessaly long before the time of Plu- tarch , the saying may be an ancient one , and of the time when there were kings . 195. Tí yàp wálwμer ...
... answered , Those who have ceased to make war . ' For though there had ceased to be a king in Thessaly long before the time of Plu- tarch , the saying may be an ancient one , and of the time when there were kings . 195. Tí yàp wálwμer ...
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Page 428 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the 21 wickedness of the wicked shall be upon -him.
Page 262 - Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him. "And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all : and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
Page 163 - Mars' hill and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 218 - This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth : for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
Page 428 - The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
Page 218 - ... on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be purged out on the other side according to it. I will cause it to go forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Page 93 - Moors, that they still continue to carry on a trade with some barbarous nations bordering upon the river Niger, without seeing the persons they trade with, or without having once broke through that original charter of commerce which from time immemorial has been settled between them. The method...
Page 268 - Since the Hellespont, in the neighbourhood of Abydos, has a very considerable bend in its course, first running northward from Abydos towards Sestos, and then taking a pretty sharp turn to the eastward ; may it not have been, that the two lines of ships were disposed on different sides of the angle just mentioned, by which it might truly be said, that the ships in one line presented their heads to the Euxine, the other their sides, although the heads of both were presented to the current ? The different...
Page 401 - ... multa verba aliud nunc ostendunt, aliud ante significabant, ut hostis: nam tum eo verbo dicebant peregrinum qui suis legibus uteretur, nunc dicunt eum quem tum dicebant perduellem.
Page 93 - ... lying at a small distance from each other, against which the Moors place so many of their trinkets as they judge will be taken in exchange for them. If the Nigritians the next morning approve of the bargain, they take up the trinkets and leave the gold dust, or else make some deduction from the latter.