| Richard Chandler - 1817 - 748 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions. The whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, ./Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships,...band of memorable men, Hecataeus, an early historian ; andThales, the father of philosophy. It withstood Darius, and refused to admit Alexander. It has... | |
| Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell - 1834 - 470 páginas
...navigators of Miletus extended its commerce to remote regions ; the whole Euxine sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships, and settled by its colonies. It was styled " mighty by sea ; " the fertile mother, which had poured forth her sons to every quarter,... | |
| Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1835 - 324 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions. The whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships, and settled by its colonies. These colonies, which were settled abroad, amounted to no less than 80, or as Seneca says, 380. The... | |
| Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1835 - 328 páginas
...Its navigators extended its commerce to remote regions. The whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships, and settled by its colonies, the number of which probably exceeded that of any other city of antiquity. Several of the kings of... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 646 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions. The whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships...colonies. It boasted a venerable band of memorable men — HecaUrus, an early historian, and Thaïes, the father of philosophy. It withstood Darius, and refused... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 372 páginas
...the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships and settled by its colonies. It withstood Darius, and refused to admit Alexander....sea; the fertile mother, which had poured forth her sons to every quarter. It afterward fell so low as to furnish a proverbial saying, ' The Milesians... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1841 - 370 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions ; the whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships and settled by its colonies. It withstood Darius, and refused to admit Alexander. It has been styled the metropolis and head of Ionia;... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 páginas
...holding commerce with remote regions. It had four ports, and before it was a cluster of small islands. It has been styled the metropolis and head of Ionia ; the bulwark of Asia, &c. ; and not fewer than seventy-five cities descended from this ' fertile mother.' It afterwards fell... | |
| John Ross Macduff - 1855 - 456 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions; the whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships and settled by its colonies It afterwards fell so low as to furnish a proverbial saying — ' The Milesians were once great.' ....... | |
| John Ross MacDuff - 1855 - 452 páginas
...early navigators extended its commerce to remote regions; the whole Euxine Sea, the Propontis, Egypt, and other countries, were frequented by its ships and settled by its colonies It afterwards fell so low as to furnish a proverbial saying — ' The Milesians were once great.' ....... | |
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