| Herodotus - 1824 - 402 sidor
...and to go down twice where he now rises ; yet without producing any change, in the things in Egypt, either with regard to the productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to diseases and deaths. CXLIII. Some time before, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecataeus" the historian, when... | |
| Samuel Sharpe - 1836 - 198 sidor
...and within this period the sun had four times risen contrary to his common course — twice he had risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. On the death of Sethon the priest of Vulcan, the Egyptians became free : the country was divided into... | |
| Alfred Wilks Drayson - 1859 - 72 sidor
...sets, and to go down twice where he now rises, yet without producing any change in the things in Egypt either with regard to the productions of the earth or the river, or with regard to diseases and death." If this were a solitary account, we might look upon it with suspicion, but even then we... | |
| Philip Smith - 1864 - 620 sidor
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 1l,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1868 - 634 sidor
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time, they related that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...143. In former time, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecatreus the historian, when he was tracing his own genealogy, and connecting his family with a god... | |
| John T. C. Heaviside - 1868 - 56 sidor
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time the sun had four times risen out of its usual quarter, and had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises ; yet no change in the things of Egypt was occasioned, either with regard to diseases or to deaths." If the... | |
| Mungo Ponton - 1873 - 232 sidor
...accompanying averment that, in the course of the 11,340 years, embraced in their pontificates, the sun had twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises. The same author, however, confirms the view that there were anciently several contemporaneous sovereigns... | |
| Philip Smith - 1873 - 596 sidor
...the Ethiopian Tirhaka). This he calculates as 11,340 years. He adds that, during this period, the sun had " twice risen where he now sets, and twice set where he now rises." This apparently absurd statement is explained by Mr. Poole as referring to " the solar risings of stars... | |
| Ellen Palmer - 1874 - 206 sidor
...him, among other things, that in a certain number of years " the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...change in the things in Egypt was occasioned by this." ' Now, Daisy, in the time mentioned by Herodotus, we know that two disturbances of the natural course... | |
| Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1885 - 628 sidor
...remaining kings of Egypt. During this time, they related, that the sun had four times risen out of his usual quarter, and that he had twice risen where he...143. In former time, the priests of Jupiter did to Hecataius the historian, when he was tracing his own genealogy, and connecting his family with a god... | |
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