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... Mützell ( Berlin 1841 ) , Foss ( Leipsic 1857 ) , and Vogel ( Leipsic 1872 ) . The critical edition of Hedicke is the basis of the present text , and has never been departed from without grave reasons and careful deliberation , and only ...
... Mützell ( Berlin 1841 ) , Foss ( Leipsic 1857 ) , and Vogel ( Leipsic 1872 ) . The critical edition of Hedicke is the basis of the present text , and has never been departed from without grave reasons and careful deliberation , and only ...
Page 86
... Mützell ( Berlin 1841 ) , Foss ( Leipsic 1857 ) , and Vogel ( Leipsic 1872 ) . The critical edition of Hedicke is the basis of the present text , and has never been departed from without grave reasons and careful deliberation , and only ...
... Mützell ( Berlin 1841 ) , Foss ( Leipsic 1857 ) , and Vogel ( Leipsic 1872 ) . The critical edition of Hedicke is the basis of the present text , and has never been departed from without grave reasons and careful deliberation , and only ...
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... Mützell remarks that the parts spoken of are the Vindhya mountains and the Deckan . plana ] this bold statement is rather sweeping , but more nearly accu- rate than that of Pliny N H VI § 60 where speaking of the northern mountains he ...
... Mützell remarks that the parts spoken of are the Vindhya mountains and the Deckan . plana ] this bold statement is rather sweeping , but more nearly accu- rate than that of Pliny N H VI § 60 where speaking of the northern mountains he ...
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... Mützell Foss and Hedicke and having the MSS authority on its side , has been retained . But the sense thus given is feeble in the extreme . Aldus read ab ortu which he probably meant to mean ' from its source ' , and he may have had ...
... Mützell Foss and Hedicke and having the MSS authority on its side , has been retained . But the sense thus given is feeble in the extreme . Aldus read ab ortu which he probably meant to mean ' from its source ' , and he may have had ...
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... Mützell . uti Nilus ] Alexander on seeing crocodiles in the Indus jumped to the conclusion that he had found the source of the Nile . See Arrian VI I §§ 2 , 3 , Herod IV 44 ( quoted on § 4 ) , Strabo XV I § 25 ( of the Hydaspes ) ...
... Mützell . uti Nilus ] Alexander on seeing crocodiles in the Indus jumped to the conclusion that he had found the source of the Nile . See Arrian VI I §§ 2 , 3 , Herod IV 44 ( quoted on § 4 ) , Strabo XV I § 25 ( of the Hydaspes ) ...
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Alexander in India: A Portion of the History Quintus Curtius W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2019 |
Alexander in Indi: A Portion of the History of Quintus Curtius (1879) W. E. Heitland,T. E. Raven No preview available - 2008 |
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