The Geography System of Herodotus Examined and Explained, by a Comparison with Those of Other Ancient Authors, and with Modern Geography ...C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1830 |
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... Pliny 2. We have said , as far as it goes , because the geography of Herodotus is confined more to ASIA and AFRICA , than to EUROPE and is by no means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect , the ...
... Pliny 2. We have said , as far as it goes , because the geography of Herodotus is confined more to ASIA and AFRICA , than to EUROPE and is by no means intended to form an abstract system , but to explain with more effect , the ...
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... Pliny inclusive , ran into the same kind of error , and even to a greater degree : for instance , the Europe of Eratosthenes and Strabo , exceeded in their ideas , the parts of Asia known to Herodotus : and those of Africa , in a yet ...
... Pliny inclusive , ran into the same kind of error , and even to a greater degree : for instance , the Europe of Eratosthenes and Strabo , exceeded in their ideas , the parts of Asia known to Herodotus : and those of Africa , in a yet ...
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... Pliny , lib . vi . c . 28 , compares the Pen- insula of Arabia , to that of Italy , not only in form and position , but in point of size also ! Thus the most prominent features of this geography , as far as we can collect from the ...
... Pliny , lib . vi . c . 28 , compares the Pen- insula of Arabia , to that of Italy , not only in form and position , but in point of size also ! Thus the most prominent features of this geography , as far as we can collect from the ...
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... Pliny , and Arrian - receives confirmation from a comparison with the mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti- nerary measures ; and the Stade probably formed originally , of a hundred of these . THOSE who have ...
... Pliny , and Arrian - receives confirmation from a comparison with the mean marches of armies - Paces , the elementary part of iti- nerary measures ; and the Stade probably formed originally , of a hundred of these . THOSE who have ...
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... Pliny says , lib . 12 , c . 14 , that Eratosthenes reckons it 40 stadia , equal to 5 MP . but that some allow 32 only . Doubtless the authority of Eratosthenes may be followed . There is also an example in Herodotus himself , between He ...
... Pliny says , lib . 12 , c . 14 , that Eratosthenes reckons it 40 stadia , equal to 5 MP . but that some allow 32 only . Doubtless the authority of Eratosthenes may be followed . There is also an example in Herodotus himself , between He ...
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Página 494 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 410 - They possess, likewise, a kind of plant, which, instead of fruit, produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep. Of this the Indians make their clothes.
Página 519 - In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Página 531 - And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
Página 518 - In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbeth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
Página 530 - And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths : none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
Página 474 - Belus230 occupies the other, whose huge gates of brass may still be seen. It is a square building, each side of which is of the length of two furlongs. . In the midst a tower rises, of the solid depth and height of one furlong; upon which, resting as a base, seven other turrets are built in regular succesion. The ascent is on the outside, whichf> winding from the ground, is continued to the highest tower; and in the middle of the whole structure there is a convenient resting-place.
Página 213 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground, where only one grew before, vvould deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Página 533 - ... and as it may be concluded, with Tobit's seal on the bags. In the East, in the present times, a bag of money passes (for some time at least) currently from hand to hand, under the authority of a banker's seal, without any examination of its contents.
Página 195 - I cannot but think it exceedingly ridiculous to hear some men talk of the circumference of the earth, pretending, without the smallest reason or probability, that the ocean encompasses the earth ; that the earth is round, as if mechanically formed so ; and that Asia is equal to Europe.