 The most disgraceful of the Babylonian customs is the following : every native woman is obliged, once in her life, to sit in the temple of Venus, and have intercourse with some stranger. And many disdaining to mix with the rest, being proud on account...  Herodotus - Sida 86efter Herodotus - 1901 - 613 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 sidor
...as a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, he sits over burning incense, and his wife does the same in some other place ; at break of day both...proud on account of their wealth, come in covered carriages, and take up their station at the temple with a numerous train of servants attending them.... | |
 | Herodotus - 1850 - 104 sidor
...until they bathe. And this is a ceremony which the Arabs also perform. 199. The most reprehensible of the Babylonian customs is the following :—Every...in the temple of Venus, and have intercourse with a strange man. Many of them, however, who are vain of their wealth, and will not therefore condescend... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 sidor
...as a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, he sits over burning incense, and his wife does the same in some other place ; at break of day both...proud on account of their wealth, come in covered carriages, and take up their station at the temple with a numerous train of servants attending them.... | |
 | Thomas Inman - 1868 - 1026 sidor
...they will not touch any vessel till they have washed. The same practice is observed by the Arabians. The most disgraceful of the Babylonian customs is...sit in the temple of Venus and have intercourse with a stranger. And many disdaining to mix with the rest, being proud on account of their wealth, come... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 sidor
...as a Babylonian has had intercourse with his wife, he sits over burning incense, and his wife does the same in some other place ; at break of day both...proud on account of their wealth, come in covered carriages, and take up their station at the temple with a numerous train of servants attending them.... | |
 | Sha Rocco - 1904 - 74 sidor
...of sensual enjoyment." A detailed description of one of them conveys only a proximate idea of them. The most disgraceful of the Babylonian customs is...sit in the temple of Venus and have intercourse with a stranger. And many, disdaining to mix with the rest, being proud on account of their wealth, come... | |
 | Charles Staniland Wake - 1889 - 506 sidor
...woman was obliged, once 1 Clio, 199. Herodotus states that the same custom was practised in Cyprus. in her life, to sit in the temple of Venus, and have intercourse with some stranger." The early Hebrews probably had the practice of wife-purchase, whether by personal labour, as in the... | |
 | Charles Letourneau - 1895 - 412 sidor
...this kind, the one invoked by all the theorists of heta1rism. I shall, therefore, quote it at length : "The most disgraceful of the Babylonian customs is...obliged, once in her life, to sit in the temple of V«nus and have intercourse with some stranger. And many, disdaining to sit with the rest, being proud... | |
 | Herodotus - 1899 - 626 sidor
...they will not touch any vessel till they have washed. The same practice is observed by the Arabians. The most disgraceful of the Babylonian customs is...proud on account of their wealth, come in covered carriages, and take up their station at the temple with a numerous train of servants attending them.... | |
 | Stephen Korwin Szymanowski - 1913 - 366 sidor
...our daughters. It was good and virtuous, nay, a sacred duty, to every respectable matron of Babylon once in her life to sit in the temple of Venus and have intercourse with some stranger. It was supremely good to Catholics to destroy Protestants and their countries. It was highly commendable... | |
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