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... says , must be assigned equal honour- " For let us not assign to one the honour of the year , to another the honour of the month , and to others none of that portion of time , in which each performs its course in conjunction with the ...
... says , must be assigned equal honour- " For let us not assign to one the honour of the year , to another the honour of the month , and to others none of that portion of time , in which each performs its course in conjunction with the ...
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... say :) These things θαλάσση και άρρεν και θήλυ . were found written in the Cosmogony ( Τούτοις εξής και αυτός συγγρα- of Taautus , and in his commentaries , φεύς επιφέρει λέγων " ) Ταύθ ' and were drawn from his observations ευρέθη εν ...
... say :) These things θαλάσση και άρρεν και θήλυ . were found written in the Cosmogony ( Τούτοις εξής και αυτός συγγρα- of Taautus , and in his commentaries , φεύς επιφέρει λέγων " ) Ταύθ ' and were drawn from his observations ευρέθη εν ...
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... say :) These things were found written in the Cosmogony of Taautus , and in his commentaries , and were drawn from his observations and the natural signs which by his penetration he perceived and disco- vered , and with which he has ...
... say :) These things were found written in the Cosmogony of Taautus , and in his commentaries , and were drawn from his observations and the natural signs which by his penetration he perceived and disco- vered , and with which he has ...
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... says ) first built a ship complete . From these descended others , who were the discoverers of medicinal herbs , and of the cure of poisons and of charms . Contemporary with these was one Elioun , called Hypsistus , ( the most high ) ...
... says ) first built a ship complete . From these descended others , who were the discoverers of medicinal herbs , and of the cure of poisons and of charms . Contemporary with these was one Elioun , called Hypsistus , ( the most high ) ...
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... say that Astarte is the same as Aphrodite . Moreover , Cronus visiting the dif- ferent regions of habitable world , gave to his daughter Athena the kingdom of Attica : and when there happened a plague with a great mortality , Cro- nus ...
... say that Astarte is the same as Aphrodite . Moreover , Cronus visiting the dif- ferent regions of habitable world , gave to his daughter Athena the kingdom of Attica : and when there happened a plague with a great mortality , Cro- nus ...
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Página xvi - So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth : and they left off to build the city.
Página xlii - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 24 - ... with the heads of dogs ; men, too, and other animals, with the heads and bodies of horses, and the tails of fishes. In short, there were creatures in which were combined the limbs of every species of animals.
Página 39 - Babylon, that none who should besiege it afterwards might have it in their power to divert the river, so as to facilitate an entrance into it ; and this he did by building three walls about the inner city, and three about the outer.
Página 27 - Daesius, there would be a flood, by which mankind would be destroyed. He, therefore, enjoined him to write a history of the beginning...
Página 29 - ... them that it was upon account of his piety that he was translated to live with the gods ; that his wife and daughter, and the pilot, had obtained the same honour.
Página 172 - Syria; but that as they were in fear of the Assyrians, who had then the dominion over Asia, they built a city in that country which is now called Judea, and that large enough to contain this great number of men, and called it Jerusalem.
Página 285 - that the Egyptians esteem the sun to be the Demiurgus ; and hold the legends about Osiris and Isis, and all their other mythological fables, to have reference to the stars, their appearances and occultations, and the periods of their risings, or to the increase and decrease of the moon, to the cycles of the sun, to the diurnal and nocturnal hemispheres, or to the river.
Página 320 - Conflagration and the Deluge. He maintains that all terrestrial things will be consumed when the planets, which now are traversing their different courses, shall all coincide in the sign of Cancer, and be so placed that a straight line could pass directly through all their orbs. But the inundation will take place when the same conjunction of the planets shall occur in Capricorn.
Página 23 - He taught them to construct cities, to found temples, to compile laws, and explained to them the principles of geometrical knowledge. He made them distinguish the seeds of the earth, and showed them how to collect the fruits ; in short he instructed them in everything which could tend to soften manners and humanise their lives.