| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pages
...triumph by the Chriftians through the city, and then thrown into a fierce fire, kindled for that purpofe in the amphitheatre. As the Egyptians afcribed the...their god Serapis, they concluded, that now he was deihoyed, the river would no longer oveiflow, and that a general famine would enfue ; but when they... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...thrown into a fierce fire, kindled for that purpofe in the amphitheatre. As the Egyptians afcribtd the overflowing of the Nile, to which was owing »the...their god Serapis, they concluded, that now he was cleflroyed, the river would no longer overflow, and that я general famine would cnfue ; but when they... | |
| 1823 - 936 pages
...thrown into a fierce fin', kindled for that purpose in the amphitheatre. As the Jvryptiuns ascribed the overflowing of the Nile, to which was owing the fertility of their coni'try, to the In-nign influence of their god Serapis, they concluded, that .low he was destroyed,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...thrown into a fierce fire, kindled for that purpose in the amphitheatre. As the Egyptians ascribed the overflowing of the Nile, to which was owing the...their god Serapis, they concluded that now he was destroyed the river would no longer overflow, and that a general famine would ensue; but when they... | |
| 1866 - 656 pages
...may be to proceed to any part of the world in thrown into a fierce fire. As the Egyptians ascribed the overflowing of the Nile, to which was owing the...their God Serapis, they concluded, that now he was destroyed, the river would overflow no longer, and that a general famine would ensue; but when they... | |
| 1866 - 512 pages
...triumph by the Christiaus Uvtwrçjà. XVss. òùJ thrown into a fierce fire. As the Egyptians ascribed the overflowing of the Nile, to which was owing the fertility of their country, to tlie benign influence of their God Serapis, they concluded, that now he was destroyed, the river would... | |
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