Valentinian, are accused, by an eyewitness, of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said, that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock; and that they curiously selected the most delicate and brawny... The History of Scotland - Page 92by George Buchanan - 1827Full view - About this book
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...eye-whness, of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said, that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock ;...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts."7 If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
| Classical philology - 1819 - 496 pages
...When they hunted the woods tor prey, it is said that they attacked the shepherd rather than his Hock ; and that they curiously selected the most delicate and brawny parts both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. Vol. ii. p. 531." Now Mr. Caches, suo maite, and without... | |
| Classical philology - 1812 - 494 pages
...error about this passage : he writes thus, " When they hunted the. woods for prey, it is said that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock ;...delicate and brawny parts both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts, vol. np 531." Now Mr. Caches, suo niar'te, aud without... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said, that they attacked the shepherd rather than Ms flock; and that they curiously selected the most delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts117. If, in tin- neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
| John Ranking - Circus - 1826 - 560 pages
...question), of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said, that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock;...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, Scots, Franks, and Saxons, all, either by accident or common league, in- CHAP. vaded the Roman province... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 526 pages
...delighting in the taste of human flesh. CHAP. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said that XXVthey attacked the shepherd rather than his flock ; and...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts b. If, in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
| Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 756 pages
...great error about this passage; he writes thus : " When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock;...delicate and brawny parts both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts."—Vol. ii. p. 631. Now Mr. Gaches, suo marte, and without... | |
| Edward Jerningham Wakefield, John Ward - Great Britain - 1837 - 476 pages
...for prey, it is said, that they attacked the shepherd rather than the flock; and that they commonly selected the most delicate and brawny parts both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 290 pages
...eyewitness of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock ;...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
| Joseph Robertson - Table-talk - 1840 - 286 pages
...eyewitness of delighting in the taste of human flesh. When they hunted the woods for prey, it is said that they attacked the shepherd rather than his flock ;...delicate and brawny parts, both of males and females, which they prepared for their horrid repasts. If in the neighbourhood of the commercial and literary... | |
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