 | Herodotus - 1858 - 746 σελίδες
...yield commonly two-hundred-fold, and when the production is the greatest, even threehund red-fold. The blade of the wheat-plant and barley-plant is often...seem incredible to those who have never visited the country.4 of date-branches, suspended from the extremity : this is balanced when full of water by means... | |
 | George Rawlinson - 1862 - 534 σελίδες
...the production is at the greatest, even three hundred-fold. The blade of the wheat-plant and of the barley-plant is often four fingers in breadth. As...of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have not visited the country." 3 Theophrastus, the disciple of Aristotle, remarks — " In Babylon the wheat-fields... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 596 σελίδες
...not say to what height they grow, though within my own knowledge ; for I am not ignorant that what 1 have already written concerning the fruitfulness of...seem incredible to those who have never visited the country.1 The only oil they use is made 7 The engine intended by Herodotus seems to have been the common... | |
 | Herodotus - 1862 - 600 σελίδες
...own knowledge ; for I am not ignorant that what I have already written concerning the friiitfulness of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have never visited the country.1 The only oil they use is made 7 The engine intended by Herodotus seems to have been the common... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1876 - 514 σελίδες
...own knowledge : for I am not ignorant that what I have already written concerning the fruittiilness of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have never visited the country."— Herodotus. t '• Stone and marble were even more rare in this country than wood, bnt... | |
 | George Rawlinson - 1879 - 622 σελίδες
...the production is at the greatest, even three hundred-fold. The blade of the wheat-plant and of the barley-plant is often four fingers in breadth. As...of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have not visited the country." 8 Theophrastus, the disciple of Aristotle, remarks — " In Babylon the wheat-fields... | |
 | Herodotus - 1880 - 752 σελίδες
...course since its original construction, and the ancient bed cannot be now continuously traced.— [HCR] BOOK I. none which is so fruitful in grain. It makes...canal in Assyria, above the alluvium, where no canal ia possible, and giving the impression that Nineveh was standing in the time of Herodotus ! 7 The fertility... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1881 - 334 σελίδες
...fruitful as to yield two hundred-fold. The blade of the wheat plant and barley plant is often three or four fingers in breadth. As for the millet and the...seem incredible to those who have never visite'd the country." — Herodotus. t " Stone and marble were even more rare in this country than wood, but the... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 σελίδες
...four fingers in breadth. As for the millet and the sesame, I shall not say to what height they prow, though within my own knowledge ; for I am not ignorant...seem incredible to those who have never visited the country. . . . Palm trees grow in great numbers over the whole of the flat country.5 ' As far as the... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1884 - 752 σελίδες
...yield two hundred-fold. The blade of the wheat plant and barley plant is often three or four flngers in breadth. As for the millet and the sesame, I shall...seem Incredible to those who have never visited the country."— Herodotiui. Ancient History. that this region was, at a very early period, crowded with... | |
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I shall not say to what height they grow, though within my own knowledge; for I am not ignorant that what I have already written concerning the fruitfulness of Babylonia must seem incredible to those who have never visited the country. 
