Herodotus, tr. by W. Beloe, כרך 21830 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 6-10 מתוך 43
עמוד 69
... give a succinct account of the magi or magians , as selected from various writers on the subject . This sect originating in the East , abominating all images , worshipped God only by fire . Their chief doctrine was that there were two ...
... give a succinct account of the magi or magians , as selected from various writers on the subject . This sect originating in the East , abominating all images , worshipped God only by fire . Their chief doctrine was that there were two ...
עמוד 78
... give us instances enough of similar accounts . With us there is no thunder without clouds , except such as is too distant to have much effect : it may be otherwise in hot climates , where the state of the air is much more electrical ...
... give us instances enough of similar accounts . With us there is no thunder without clouds , except such as is too distant to have much effect : it may be otherwise in hot climates , where the state of the air is much more electrical ...
עמוד 90
... give the reader , as translated from the Latin of Father Strope , a learned Ger- man missionary . The camels which have the honor to bear presents to Mecca and Medina are not to be treated afterwards as common animals ; they are ...
... give the reader , as translated from the Latin of Father Strope , a learned Ger- man missionary . The camels which have the honor to bear presents to Mecca and Medina are not to be treated afterwards as common animals ; they are ...
עמוד 92
... gives notice to the herd of any ap- proaching danger , by neighing aloud , when they all run off with amazing swiftness . These are sometimes taken by the means of hawks , which fix on their heads , and distress them so as to give the ...
... gives notice to the herd of any ap- proaching danger , by neighing aloud , when they all run off with amazing swiftness . These are sometimes taken by the means of hawks , which fix on their heads , and distress them so as to give the ...
עמוד 97
... give the name of Eridanus 2 1 The following description of the broad - tailed sheep , from Pennant , takes away from the seeming improbability of this account . This species , ' says Mr. Pennant , is common in Syria , Barbary , and ...
... give the name of Eridanus 2 1 The following description of the broad - tailed sheep , from Pennant , takes away from the seeming improbability of this account . This species , ' says Mr. Pennant , is common in Syria , Barbary , and ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
accordingly affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient animal appears Arabian Arcesilaus Aristagoras army arrived Artaphernes Asia Athenians Athens authority Battus body brother Budini called Cambyses camels Cleomenes Clisthenes commanded countrymen Crotona custom Cyrene Cyreneans Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes desert divine earth Egypt Egyptians enemy engaged Ethiopians expedition father Geloni Gobryas gold Greece Greeks happened Hellespont Hercules Herodotus Histiæus honor horse hundred inhabitants intirely Ionians island Issedones Ister Jupiter king knowlege Lacedæmonians Larcher Libya Mæandrius magus manner Megabyzus Milesians Miletus nations never nians observed occasion Onesilus oracle Otanes Pæonians passage passed Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Polycrates possessed present Prexaspes prince Pythian received remarkable replied resemblance river sacred sailed Samians Samos Sardis says Scythians sent Smerdis soon Sparta stadia Susa Syloson talents temple Thera thing Thrace tion took tribes vessels whilst wives women
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 12 - ... hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely : touch me with noble anger ! And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks !— No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both, That all the world shall — I will do such things — What they are yet I know not ; but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep ; No, I'll not weep : — • I have full cause of weeping ; but this heart Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,...
עמוד 12 - If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall — I will do such things. — What they are yet I know not, — but they shall be The terrors of the earth. You think...
עמוד 36 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless : Still various, and unconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind ; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
עמוד 18 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ear-ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold...
עמוד 244 - It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
עמוד 149 - Lybia, and planted some corn in the place where they happened to find themselves. When this was ripe, and they had cut it down, they again departed. " Having thus consumed two years, they in the third doubled the columns of Hercules and returned to Egypt. Their relation may obtain attention from others, but to me it seems incredible ; for they affirm that, having sailed round Lybia, they had the sun on their right hand.
עמוד 18 - And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold beside ornaments and collars and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian and beside the chains that were about their camels
עמוד 128 - When lo ! we reach'd old Ocean's utmost bounds, Where rocks control his waves with ever-during mounds. There in a lonely land, and gloomy cells, The dusky nation of Cimmeria dwells; The sun ne'er views th' uncomfortable seats, When radiant he advances or retreats: Unhappy race!
עמוד 4 - This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind ? This mischief had not then befall'n, And more that shall befall ; innumerable Disturbances on Earth through female snares, And straight conjunction with this sex...
עמוד 235 - And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.