 Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came, they went ashore, and sowed the land, by whatever part of Libya they happened to be sailing, and waited for harvest ; then having reaped the...  The Geographical Journal - Seite 4841908Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Jacob Bryant - 1793 - 566 Seiten
...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 - 514 Seiten
...Herakles and arrived in Egypt, 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 - 562 Seiten
...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 - 634 Seiten
...the northern sea,7 and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came,...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 - 796 Seiten
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes its probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south... | |
 | 1851 - 614 Seiten
...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 - 642 Seiten
...the northern sea,7 and so to return to Egypt. The Phoenicians accordingly, setting out from the Red Sea, navigated the southern sea ; when autumn came,...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 - 702 Seiten
...they arrived in Aegypt, and related what does 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 Exammundertaking, we shall first examine into the... | |
 | James Talboys Wheeler - 1855 - 486 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - 650 Seiten
...states it ; but the reason he gives for doing so, is the very one that establishes it probability, — that, as they sailed round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand. Both the adventurer and narrator were ignorant of the sun's apparent track, and as the former got south... | |
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