 | Herodotus - 1858 - 746 σελίδες
...dumb man meaneth ; Lo ! on my sense there strikcth the smell of a shell-covered tortoise, Boiling now on a fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron,...come back with the answers which they had received, Croesus undid the rolls, and read what was written in each. Only one approved itself to him, • it... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 σελίδες
...dumb man meaneth ; Lo ! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise, Boiling now on a fire with the flesh of a lamb in a cauldron,...is the vessel below, and brass the cover above it. 23. After Blenheim. My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 754 σελίδες
...meaneth • Lo ! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell.covered tortoise, Boiling now on tho fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron, —...come back with the answers which they had received, Crasus undid the rolls, and read what was written in each. Only one approved itself to him, that of... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1876 - 388 σελίδες
...The answer was — " Lo, on my sense striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise Boiling on the fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron ; Brass is the vessel below, brass the cover above it" Crcesus was really, as the most unlikely thing to be guessed, boiling a tortoise... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1876 - 378 σελίδες
...The answer was — " Lo, on my sense striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise Boiling on the fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron ; Brass is the vessel below, brass the cover above it." Croesus was really, as the most unlikely thing to be guessed, boiling a... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1878 - 440 σελίδες
...The answer was — " Lo, on my sense striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise Boiling on the fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron ; Brass is the vessel below, brass the cover above it." Croesus was really, as the most unlikely thing to be guessed, boiling a... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1894 - 438 σελίδες
...The answer was — " Lo, on my sense striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise Boiling on the fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron; Brass is the vessel below, brass the cover above it." Croesus was really, as the most unlikely thing to be guessed, boiling a... | |
 | Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) - 1903 - 590 σελίδες
...dumb man meancth ; Lo ! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell-cover'd tortoise, Boiling now on a fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron,...is the vessel below, and brass the cover above it.' The first two lines of the oracle are quoted by Origen, с. Celsum, ii. 9. Cf. Clem. Protrept. 38.... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1909 - 386 σελίδες
...with the flesh of a lamb, in a caldron, — Brass is the vessel below, and brass the cover above it." These words the Lydians wrote down at the mouth of...come back with the answers which they had received, Croesus undid the rolls, and read what was written in each. Only one approved itself to him, that of... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1909 - 380 σελίδες
...with the flesh of a lamb, in a. caldron, — Brass is the vessel below, and brass the cover above it." These words the Lydians wrote down at the mouth of...come back with the answers which they had received, Croesus undid the rolls, and read what was written in each. Only one approved itself to him, that of... | |
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I can count the sands, and I can measure the ocean; I have ears for the silent, and know what the dumb man meaneth; Lo! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise; Boiling now on a fire, with the flesh of a lamb, in a cauldron —... 
