 | Arrian - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...at the same time for the purpose of conveying provisions near the fleet. The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden ; most of which perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...coast in order to keep the fleet supplied with provisions, induced him to march by this route ; but that the blazing heat and want of water destroyed...fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those who stepped on... | |
 | 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...coast in order to keep the fleet supplied with provisions, induced him to march by this route ; but that the blazing heat and want of water destroyed...fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those who stepped on... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1904 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...unfortunate followers perished by thousands. ' The blazing heat and want of water,' Arrian tells us, ' destroyed a great part of the army, and especially...scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst.' Ultimately, the remnant of the force worked its way back to the coast, emerging near the harbour of... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...route. The way led through the inhospitable regions of Gedrosia. . . . The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden. Most of these perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...route. The way led through the inhospitable regions of Gedrosia. . . . The scorching heat and lack of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden. Most of these perished from thirst and some of them even from the depth and heat of the sand, because... | |
 | 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 876
...of this march have been collected and translated by McCrindle (1893, pp. 173-5, 263, 298 and 316). Arrian's account states that " the blazing heat and...fire, while a great many died of thirst. For they met, he says, with lofty ridges of deep sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those who stepped on... | |
 | André Wink - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...160 kilometers from the Arabius the Ras Malan forced him to turn inland and, as Arrian describes it, 'the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army . . . For they met with lofty ridges of sand not hard and compact, but so loose that those who stepped... | |
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... the blazing heat and want of water destroyed a great part of the army, and especially the beasts of burden, which perished from the great depth of the sand, and the heat which scorched like fire, while a great many died of thirst. 