 | 1815 - 480 pàgines
...to the river Lycus, sometimes also called Cauis, and by the Turks, Nahor Kelp. Its name is derived from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was worshipped there, and is said to have pronounced oracles at this place. Its body is shown to strangers lying in... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1824 - 774 pàgines
...to Strnlm, it was formerly navigable, though the stream is very rapid. It is said to derive its name from " an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which...is said to have pronounced oracles, at this place. The image," adds Maundrell, " is pretended to be shewn to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with... | |
 | 1825 - 600 pàgines
...liks of Sidon and Tripoli ; and Maundrell mentions the current . tradition, that it derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which pronounced oracles at this place, and the trunk or pedestal of which was still to be seen lying in... | |
 | Henry Maundrell - 1836 - 294 pàgines
...river Lycus, called also sometime Canis, and by the Turks at this day Nahor Kelp. It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...is said to have pronounced oracles at this place. The image is pretended to be shown to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward... | |
 | Edward Hungerford D. Elers Napier - 1843 - 376 pàgines
...River Lycus, called also sometimes Cards, and by the Turks at this day, Nahor Kelp, It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...is said to have pronounced oracles at this place. The image is pretended to be shewn to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward... | |
 | Edward Delaval Hungerford Elers Napier - 1847 - 374 pàgines
...River Lycus, called also sometimes Cams, and by the Turks at this day, Nahor Kelp. It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...is said to have pronounced oracles at this place. The image is pretended to be shewn to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1848 - 564 pàgines
...Lycus, called also, sometimes, Canis, and by the Turks, at this day, Nahr Kelp. It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...is said to have pronounced oracles, at this place. The image is pretended to be shown to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward.... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 1420 pàgines
...present day (Wakr-el-Kefo). about 2 hours north of Beyrut; which derives its name, says Maundrell, from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...Antoninus Pius, as a Latin inscription, copied by Maundrell, and still legible, records (Journey. March 17, pp. 35—37). Cuneiform inscriptions and... | |
 | Henry Rider Haggard - 1902 - 458 pàgines
...Lycus, called also, sometimes, Canis, and by the Turks, at this day, Nahr Kelp. It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf, which was...is said to have pronounced oracles, at this place. The image is pretended to be shown to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward.... | |
 | 1903 - 458 pàgines
...river Lycus, called also sometimes Canis, and by the Turks at this day Nahr Kelb. It derives its name from an idol in the form of a dog or wolf which was...is said to have pronounced oracles at this place. The image is pretended to be shown to strangers, lying in the sea with its heels upward. I mean the... | |
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The image is pretended to be shown to strangers at this day, lying in the sea with its heels upward. I mean the body of it ; for its oracular head is reported to have been broken off and carried to Venice, where (if fame be true) it may be seen at this... 
