 I visited this place, and found it to surpass description; for if all the walls and other great works of the Greeks could be put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth; and yet the temple of Ephesus is a building...  The School of Mines Quarterly - Page 761884Full view - About this book
 | Herodotus - 1858 - 658 pages
...small reservoir at the modern town, a very humble hood of the place called the city of Crocodiles.1 I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth ;2 and yet the temple of Ephesus is a building worthy of note,3 and... | |
 | Annie Keary, Eliza Keary - 1861 - 466 pages
..." I visited this place " (the City of Crocodiles, in the Fyoom, near which the labyrinth stood), " and found it to surpass description ; for if all the...walls and other great works of the Greeks could be brought together in e H2 OXFORD one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this labyrinth.... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1861 - 486 pages
..." I visited this place " (the City of Crocodiles, in the Fyoom, near which the labyrinth stood), " and found it to surpass description ; for if all the...walls and other great works of the Greeks could be brought together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this labyrinth. The pyramids... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1862 - 504 pages
...standing at the same time, and which it would seem to us must have been equally grand. He says of it : "I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth. — It has twelve courts, all of them roofed, with gates exactly... | |
 | Herodotus - 1866 - 560 pages
...imitation of the Lake Mœris, supplies in the same manner the various VOL. II.— 18 of Crocodiles.1 I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth ;2 and yet the temple of Ephesus is a building worthy of note,3 and... | |
 | Anonymous - 1866 - 588 pages
...usual architectural rule, and was matured by degrees. ' If,' says Herodotus of the Labyrinth in Egypt, 'all the walls and other great works of the Greeks could be put together in one they would not equal this either for labour or expense. The pyramids, likewise, surpass description, and are severally equal... | |
 | 1866 - 586 pages
...usual architectural rule, was matured by degrees. ' If,' says Herodotus of the Labyrinth in Egypt, 'all the walls and other great works of the Greeks could be put together in one they would not equal this either for labour or expense. The pyramids, likewise, surpass description, and are severally equal... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1870 - 552 pages
...standing at the same time, and which it would Doom to us must have been equally grand. He says of it : ' I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...the walls and other great works of the Greeks could he put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth. It has... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, John Gardner Wilkinson - 1873 - 546 pages
...commission. But little remains to justify the extravagant admiration bestowed on it by Herodotus, who says, " I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...all the walls and other great works of the Greeks were put together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth:" and... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 656 pages
...lies a little above Lake Moeris,9 in the neighbourhood of the place called the city of Crocodiles.1 I visited this place, and found it to surpass description...together in one, they would not equal, either for labour or expense, this Labyrinth ; s and ' The position of the natural lake is well known ; but M.... | |
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