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So does Menelaus:— Cyprus, Phoenicia, Sidon, and the shores Of Egypt, roaming without hope I reach’d; In distant Ethiopia thence arrived, And Libya, where the lambs their foreheads show With budding horns defended soon as yean’d.Having wandered to Cyprus, and Phoenice, and the Egyptians, I came to the Ethiopians, and Sidonians, and Erembi, and Libya, where the lambs immediately become horned. Odyssey iv. 83.Odyssey iv. 83. Adding as a peculiarity of the country, There thrice within the year the flocks produce.Odyssey iv. 86.Odyssey iv. 86. And of Egypt:—Where the sustaining earth is most prolific.Homer says, ———τν͂ͅπλεῖστα φἐοͅει ζείδωοͅος ἄοͅουοͅα φάοͅμακα.Odyssey iv. 229. Which Cowper properly renders:— Egypt teems With drugs of various powers. Strabo, by omitting the word φαοͅμακα from his citation, alters to a certain degree the meaning of the sentence. And Thebes, the city with an hundred gates, Whence twenty thousand chariots rush to war.Iliad ix. 383, et seq.Iliad ix. 383, et seq.
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Such information greatly enlarges our sphere of knowledge, by informing us of the nature of the country, its botanical and zoological peculiarities. To these should be added its marine history; for we are in a certain sense amphibious, not exclusively connected with the land, but with the sea as well. Hercules, on account of his vast experience and observation, was described as skilled in mighty works.Odyssey xxi. 26.
