 | William Neilson - Greek language - 1810 - 200 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and they call it Mañeros. They have a tradition that Mañeros was the only son of their first monarch; and that having... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence" the ^Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks ; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and they call it * They hare a song."]— Linus, says Diodorus Siculus, was tlie first inventor of melody amongst the... | |
 | Herodotus - 1821 - 482 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the .^Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and they call * They have a song.] — Linus, says Diodorus Siculus, was the first inventor of melody amongst the... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1828 - 200 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks ; it is of the remotest antiquity among th»m, and they call it Marioros. They have a tradition that Maneros was the only son of their first... | |
 | Christianity - 1829 - 612 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learnt this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks. It is of the remotest...strains in his honour, constituting their first and, in early times, their only song.' This Linus, we learn from Diodorus Siculus, was named after the first... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1829 - 606 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learnt this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks. It is of the remotest...strains in his honour, constituting their first and, in early times, their only song.' This Linus, we learn from Diodorus Siculus, was named after the first... | |
 | Herodotus - History, Ancient - 1830 - 346 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so intirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks: it is of the remotest...antiquity among them, and they call it Maneros. They 1 The attachment of the Egyptians to their country has been a frequent subject of remark : it is nevertheless... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1830 - 542 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks ; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and of white wool, but in these vests of wool they are forbidden by their religion either to be buried... | |
 | William Neilson - 1834 - 268 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks ; it is of the remotest antiquity among them, and they call it Mañeros. They have a tradition that Mañeros was the only son of their first monarch ; and that, having... | |
 | William Frederick Van Amringe - Anthropology - 1848 - 852 pages
...nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians learned this song, so entirely resembling the Linus of the Greeks; it is of the remotest...died, they instituted these melancholy strains in his honor, constituting their first, and in earlier times their only song." All this similitude prevailed... | |
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... our approbation, they have a song, which is also used in Phoenicia, Cyprus and other places, where it is differently named. Of all the things •which astonished me in Egypt, nothing more perplexed me than my curiosity to know whence the Egyptians... 