 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...about fixing them is this. They are brought from a bill called Obelus, and every man drives in three for every wife that ho marries. Now the men hare... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1859 - 586 pages
...immigrants. In some places it is evident from the deposits 226 CHAP. 16. THEIR DWELLINGS AND CUSTOMS. platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orb^lus,8 and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives... | |
 | Herodotus - Greece - 1859 - 590 pages
...immigrants. In some places it is evident from the deposita CHAP. 1C. THEIR DWELLINGS AND CUSTOMS. 227 platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orb61us,9 and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives... | |
 | 1862 - 620 pages
...which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...called Orbelus, and every man drives in three for every wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives apiece, and this is the way in which they... | |
 | Herodotus, George Rawlinson - Greece - 1862 - 474 pages
...are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge.8 At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...is this : — they are brought from a hill called Orbêlus,9 and every man drives in three for each wife that he marries. Now the men have all many wives... | |
 | John Johnston Kelso - Ireland - 1865 - 92 pages
...are approached from the land by asingle narrow bridge. At the first, piles which bear up the platform were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but afterwards the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this : — They are brought from a hill... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 854 pages
...which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in thro; for each wife that he marries. Now, the men have all many wives apiece, and this is the way in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...but since that time the custom which has prevailed j about fixing them is this : They are brought from a hill called Orbelus, and every man drives in... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 852 pages
...which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the tirst, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...three for each wife that he marries. Now, the men bave all many wives apiece, and this is the way in which they live. Each has his own hut, wherein he... | |
 | Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers - Switzerland - 1875 - 260 pages
...are approached from the land by a single, narrow bridge. At the first, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole...Orbelus , and every man drives in three for each wife he marries. Now, the men have all many wives, and this is the way in which they live: each has his... | |
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At the tirst, the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens ; but since that time the custom which has prevailed about fixing them is this... 
