 Parasangas in Circuit ; all built with Bricks, except the Plinth which was of Stone, and twenty Feet high. This City when besieged by the King of Persia, at the Time the Persians were wresting the Empire from the Medes, he could not make himself Master...  The Anabasis - Pàgina 131per Xénophon - 1839Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Xenophon - 1840 - 790 pàgines
...! walls of which were five and twenty feet in breadth, one hundred in height, and two para- { nogs in circuit ; all built with bricks, except the plinth,...twenty feet high. This city, when besieged by the lung of Persia, at the time the Persians were Krestug the empire from the Medes, he could not make... | |
 | William Ainsworth - 1844 - 286 pàgines
...in height, and two parasangs (six miles) in circuit ; all III.] LARISSA— REMAINS OF A PYRAMID. 137 built with bricks, except the plinth, which was of stone, and twenty feet high. Close to the city stood a pyramid of stone, one hundred feet square, and two hundred high, in which... | |
 | Xenophon (Cyprius) - 1845 - 906 pàgines
...breadth, one hundred in height, and two parasangs in circuit ; all built with bricks, except the p iuili, which was of stone, and twenty feet high. This city,...himself master of by any means ; when it happened that 1 the sun, obscured by a cloud, disappeared, and the darkness continued till the inhabitants being... | |
 | Xenophon - 1845 - 782 pàgines
...the walls of which were live and twenty feet in breadth, one hundred in height, and two parafeangs in circuit ; all built with bricks, except the plinth,...time the Persians were wresting the empire from the Mcde.s, he could not make himself master of by any means ; when it happened that 1 the sun, obscured... | |
 | Joseph Bonomi - 1852 - 434 pàgines
...describes the walls to have been " twentyfive feet in breadth, one hundred in height, and two parasangas in circuit ; all built with bricks, except the plinth, which was of stone, and twenty feet high. Close to the city stood a pyramid of stone, one hundred feet square, and two hundred feet high." Thence... | |
 | 1854 - 410 pàgines
...were twenty-fivo feet in breadth, one hundred in height, and two parasangs in circuit ; all built of bricks, except the plinth, which was of stone, and twenty feet high Close to the city stood a pyramid of stone, one hundred feet square, and two hundred high Thence they... | |
 | 1858 - 428 pàgines
...The city of Larisea was anciently inhabited by the Medes. When the king of Persia be8ieged this city, at the time the Persians were wresting the empire...from the Medes, he could not make himself master of it by any means ; when it happened that the sun, obscured by a cloud, disappeared, and the darkness... | |
 | Babylon - 1860 - 398 pàgines
...The walls were seventy-five feet in breadth, one hundred in height, and two parasangs, or six miles, in circuit; all built with bricks, except the plinth, which was of stone, and twenty feet high. Close to the city stood a pyramid of stone, one hundred feet square and two hundred high ; upon this... | |
 | William Carr Thurman - 1864 - 256 pàgines
...0. 35 m. total, — when Cyrus took Larissa in Media." He gives Xenophon as authority, who says: — "At the time the Persians were wresting the empire from the Medes, the King of Persia could not make himself master of the city Larissa until it happened that the sun,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1865 - 524 pàgines
...his twentieth, according to the tradition of Eusebius. Further: Xenophon (Anab., iii., 4, 8) says: " At the time the Persians were wresting the empire from the Medes, the king of the Persians besieged Larissa, and could not take it by any means; but a cloud covered... | |
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