 | Herodotus - 1859 - 590 σελίδες
...not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.' The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs... | |
 | Herodotus - 1859 - 586 σελίδες
...not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.7 The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs... | |
 | John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson - 1861 - 484 σελίδες
...Scythian scalping : " In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - 1862 - 474 σελίδες
...not produce a head, in order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.7 The Scyth (c, 19;, Clemens Alexandrinus (Protrept.... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 486 σελίδες
...not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.7 The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs... | |
 | François Lenormant, Elisabeth Chevallier - 1871 - 980 σελίδες
...not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and laying hold of the scalp shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them... | |
 | William Richard Harris - 1893 - 360 σελίδες
...described : — ' In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut around the head about the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands. uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scythian is proud of these scalps, and hangs... | |
 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 σελίδες
...not produce a head, hi order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scyth is proud of these scalps, and hangs them... | |
 | Paul R. Magocsi - 1996 - 836 σελίδες
...not produce a head. In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and, laying hold of the scalp, shakes the...scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin. The Scythian is proud of these scalps, and hangs... | |
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In order to strip the skull of its covering, he makes a cut round the head above the ears, and laying hold of the scalp shakes the skull out ; then with the rib of an ox he scrapes the scalp clean of flesh, and softening it by rubbing between the hands,... 