 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the 1 5 death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.... | |
 | Percy Hugh Hamon Massy - 1928 - 316 pages
...stream, known in classical times as the River of Adonis, runs blood-red, tradition says in memory of the death of Adonis who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains near by and was mourned by the Syrian Venus. This peculiarity is still observed after heavy rains,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 2003 - 566 pages
...that this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially ahout the feast of Adonis, is of a hloody colour, which the heathens looked upon as proceeding...the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed hy a wild hoar in the mountains out of which this stream rises. Something like this we saw actually... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - 278 pages
...That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding...to pass ; for the water was stained to a surprising redness : and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 278 pages
...That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding...to pass ; for the water was stained to a surprising redness : and, as we observed in travelling, had discoloured the sea a great way into a reddish hue,... | |
 | John Carne, William Henry Bartlett - 1842 - 250 pages
...in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains out of which it rises. Something like this we saw actually come to...• pass, for the water was stained to a surprising redness, and the sea was discoloured a great way on to a reddish hue, occasioned doubtless hy a sort... | |
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That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour ; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in... 
