 ... whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the corn, they put to sea again. When two years had thus passed, in the third, having doubled the pillars of Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related...  Lives of American Merchants - الصفحة xviiالمحررون: - 1858عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Jacob Bryant - 1793 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...strange account, " perfectly INCREDIBLE TO ME; another may '; believe it, if he pleases ; that, when they sailed '* round Libya, THEY HAD THE SUN ON THEIR ** RIGHT HAND J." The same honest author, sefl. 25* To the same purpose Aristotle: Rhet. ii. 19. 2 fin. AM®-, ix... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...relating things, which Herodotus naively remarks, ' ' do not seem to me credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." An attempt was afterwards made to circumnavigate Libya by one Sataspes, of the Achaemenidae or royal... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...story may \ be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible; for they ' affirmed that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 7. Such is the relation of Herodotus ; and it is remarkable, that the circumstance which caused him... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known. 43. Subsequently the Carthaginians say that Libya is surrounded by water.... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...fact, while he states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes its probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya,...considerable importance. The unbounded fertility of the Nile gave her the means of furnishing the then known world, and she exchanged food for the luxuries... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...fact, while he states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes its probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya,...eccentric and unbecoming movement in the head of the solar svstem. The inland Commerce of Egypt was of very considerable importance. The unbounded fertility of... | |
 | 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...Their story may be believed by others, but to me it appears incredible ; for they affirm that, when they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." When Herodotus wrote the above, the Greeks were unacquainted with the phenomena of a shadow falling... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 642
...Hercules, they arrived in Egypt, and related what to me does not seem credible, but may to others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Thus was Libya first known. 43. Subsequently the Carthaginians say that Libya is surrounded by water.... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...arrived in Aegypt, and related what docs not seem credible to me, but which may be believed by others, that as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." 2 In order to arrive at the practicability of the Exnminundertaking, we shall first examine into the... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...year of their voyage, having sailed through the Pillars of Hercules*, they reached Egypt, and declared that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." Herodotus knew not what to make of this story, especially of the relation of the Phoenicians that after... | |
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