 ... When autumn came, they went ashore, wherever they might happen to be, and having sown a tract of land with corn, waited until the grain was fit to cut. Having reaped it, they again set sail; and thus it came to pass that two whole years went by, and...  The Fleets of the World: The Galley Period - Página 14por Foxhall Alexander Parker - 1876 - 235 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars .of Hercules, and made good their voyage...sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand.9 In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. 43. Next to these Phœnicians the Carthaginians,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand.9 In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. 43. Next to these Pluenicians the Carthaginians,... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand.9 In this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. Pliny also mentions a certain Eudoxus,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 486 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...this way was the extent of Libya first discovered. 43. Next to these Phœnicians the Carthaginians, according to their own accounts, made the voyage.... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1871 - 332 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...their return, they declared — I, for my part, do nnt bel'eve them, but perhaps others may " — that, in sailing round Libya, they lusd the sun ul,on... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1871 - 620 páginas
...against his own incredulity : " on their return they declared — for my part, I don't believe them — that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand " — which would be a simple astronomical fact.4* It is remarkable that the king, who is said to have... | |
 | William Schaw Lindsay - 1874 - 724 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...— that in sailing round Libya, they had the sun on their right hand." But what Herodotus disbelieved, from ignorance of the principles of spherical... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1878 - 704 páginas
...very cause which made the credulous historian, for once, incredulous — the navigators' statement that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand — is the strongest proof of the truth of the story.2 But the discoveries of Neco, and the enterprise... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1879 - 786 páginas
...very cause which made the credulous historian, for once, incredulous — the navigators' statement that in sailing round Libya they had the sun upon their right hand — is the strongest proof of the truth of the story.2 But the discoveries of Neco, and the enterprise... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - 1880 - 356 páginas
...it came to pass that two whole years went by, and it was not till the third year that they doubled the Pillars of Hercules, and made good their voyage...this way was the extent of Libya first discovered." * This wonderful event must have taken place some 175 years before the time when Herodotus resided... | |
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