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Strana xv
... himself through grief for the dimnefs of his fight , in the 10th or 12th year of Pto- lemy Epiphanes , about 196 years before Chrift . In the hiftory of Egypt , befides Manetbo , we have chiefly followed Herodotus , and Diodorus Siculus ...
... himself through grief for the dimnefs of his fight , in the 10th or 12th year of Pto- lemy Epiphanes , about 196 years before Chrift . In the hiftory of Egypt , befides Manetbo , we have chiefly followed Herodotus , and Diodorus Siculus ...
Strana xvi
... himself distinguished with those titles , but by the admirers of his performance . He re- cited his history , as Lucian informs us , on the public theatre at Olympia , to a crouded auditory of the chief men of all Greece , met to ...
... himself distinguished with those titles , but by the admirers of his performance . He re- cited his history , as Lucian informs us , on the public theatre at Olympia , to a crouded auditory of the chief men of all Greece , met to ...
Strana xviii
... himself informs us ' . He traveled , with no fmall danger , over great part of Europe , Afia , and all Egypt , to acquaint himself with the geography of the p'ices , as well as the cuftoms and manners of the inhabitants . He wrote a ...
... himself informs us ' . He traveled , with no fmall danger , over great part of Europe , Afia , and all Egypt , to acquaint himself with the geography of the p'ices , as well as the cuftoms and manners of the inhabitants . He wrote a ...
Strana xx
... himself informs us , was completed in the 13th year of Domitian , that is , in the 93d of Chrift . In his chronology he often difagrees both with the Septuagint , and the writers of other nations ; nay , he is frequently inconfiftent ...
... himself informs us , was completed in the 13th year of Domitian , that is , in the 93d of Chrift . In his chronology he often difagrees both with the Septuagint , and the writers of other nations ; nay , he is frequently inconfiftent ...
Strana xxiv
... himself of the kingdom of Perfia . Strabo , fpeak- ing of the great men of Cnidos , mentions Ctefias , who , fays he , cured Artaxerxes ; and Xenophon , who was his cotemporary , tells us , that Cteftas of Cnidos was a phy- fician ; and ...
... himself of the kingdom of Perfia . Strabo , fpeak- ing of the great men of Cnidos , mentions Ctefias , who , fays he , cured Artaxerxes ; and Xenophon , who was his cotemporary , tells us , that Cteftas of Cnidos was a phy- fician ; and ...
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