 | Annie Keary - 1861 - 486 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that, while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one speak a word in EGYPTIAN HISTORY.... | |
 | Annie Keary, Eliza Keary - 1861 - 466 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that, while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one speak a word in their presence,... | |
 | Annie Keary, Eliza Keary - 1863 - 478 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that, while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one speak a word in their presence,... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1881 - 58 σελίδες
...Psamethik (Psametichos), "made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race," and " finding; it impossible to make out by dint of inquiry what men were the most ancient," he had two children brought np with goats by a herdsman, "charging him to- let no one utter a word... | |
 | Herodotus - 1889 - 560 σελίδες
...the account which Herodotus gives below VOL. i:—I discover who were actually the primitive race, 3 they have been of opinion that while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
 | Charles Woodward Hutson - 1897 - 410 σελίδες
...solitary child. The story runs thus: — Psammetichus, to find out which was the oldest human race, "took two children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 550 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1901 - 514 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
 | Edward Capps - 1901 - 516 σελίδες
...mankind. Since Psammetichus, however, made an attempt to discover who were actually the primitive race, they have been of opinion that while they surpass...children of the common sort, and gave them over to a herdsman to bring up at his folds, strictly charging him to let no one utter a word in their presence,... | |
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they have been of opinion that while they surpass all other nations, the Phrygians surpass them in antiquity. This king, finding it impossible to make out by dint of inquiry what men were the most ancient, contrived the following method of discovery :—... 
