 | Arnold Hermann L. Heeren - 1832 - 484 pages
...forests ; and it is well known what bloody wars were carried on between the Ptolemeys and the Seleucidse for the possession of those countries. But we easily...According to Homer, Menelaus sailed into Egypt ; and Diodorus* meni DIODORUS, i, p. 23. It is doubtful, however, whether this traditioa B b 370 EGYPTIANS.... | |
 | 1836 - 710 pages
...also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and " 183 _+ to oppose them or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence to land upon their shores. The... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 702 pages
...also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which to oppose them or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence to land upon their shores. The... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1845 - 688 pages
...also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which to oppose them or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence to land upon their shores. The... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1864 - 366 pages
...more or less pirates, who kidnapped men and children from the coasts, whenever they got a chance ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which they could resist or retaliate, should be loath to allow foreigners to anchor in their waters. The Greeks were... | |
 | John Kitto - 1869 - 798 pages
...also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which to oppose them or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence to land upon their shores. The... | |
 | John Kitto - 1871 - 794 pages
...also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which to oppose them, or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence to land upon their shores. The... | |
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Mediterranean were also pirates, who made it a particular branch of their business to kidnap men from the coasts ; and it was therefore natural that a people who had no vessels with which to oppose them or retaliate upon them, should allow them no pretence... 