 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1912 - 612 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...sacrifice to Jupiter, which is the name they give to tfie whole circuit of the firmament. They likewise offer to the sun and moon, to the earth, to fire,... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1912 - 394 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...Greeks imagine. Their wont, however, is to ascend to the summits of the loftiest mountains and there to offer sacrifice to Zeus [ = AhuraMazda], which... | |
 | Voltaire - 1912 - 176 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples, nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine.' — Hist. i. 131. 1. 31. jusquiame, /., ' henbane,' a narcotic plant used in medicine. ciguë, /.,... | |
 | Hutton Webster, Ph.d - 1913 - 316 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples or altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...have the same nature with men as the Greeks imagine. The Persians, however, 1 Natives of Boeotia, one of the states of Greece. ascend the summits of the... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples or altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...have the same nature with men as the Greeks imagine. The Persians, however, ascend the summits of the loftiest mountains, and there offer sacrifice to Zeus,1... | |
 | William Stearns Davis - 1912 - 396 σελίδες
...Persians and their customs. If in points he reports inaccurately, the main details are probably correct. have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine. Their wont, however, is to ascend to the summits of the loftiest mountains and there to offer sacrifice to Zeus [ = AhuraMazda], which... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 296 σελίδες
...Persians, however, ascend the summits of the loftiest mountains, and there offer sacrifice to Zeus, 1 which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament. They likewise sacrifice to the sun and moon, to the earth, to fire, to water, and to the winds. These are the only... | |
 | Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi - 1917 - 400 σελίδες
...and Herodotus or) the thev consider the use of these a sign of folly. Persian religion. ; . , ,. . , This comes, I think, from their not believing the...have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine. ":! In this passage, Herodotus seems to point to the superiority of the ancient Persians over his Greeks,... | |
 | Albert Pike - 1924 - 732 σελίδες
...He says (»'. 131), that the Persians have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and adds, "This comes, I think, from their not believing the...the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine." That is certainly saying that they considered them spiritual beings, without human passions. They sacrifice... | |
 | Herodotus - 1996 - 772 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...loftiest mountains, and there to offer sacrifice to Zeus, which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament. They likewise offer to the... | |
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Persians to observe are the following: they have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the gods to have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine. 
