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" Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt, one of which flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had consecrated... "
Exercises in orthography and composition on an entirely new plan - Page 217
by Henry Hopkins (A.M.) - 1837
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Mythology Compared with History: Or, The Fables of the Ancients Elucidated ...

Tressan (M. l'abbé de) - Druids and Druidism - 1797 - 540 pages
...their eftablifhment to the Egyptians. This fact, which is recorded in hiftory, we fhall explain. Two doves took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt. One went into Lybia, the othet other alighted in the foreft of Dodona, fituated in Chaonia, a province...
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A classical dictionary

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1812 - 892 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as iie relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt,...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where wjth a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had ccnfecratcd...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 7

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 816 pages
...Herodotus, it was founded in coiifequence of an oracular meiT;ige by a Jure. Two black doves, he fays, took their flight from the city of Thebes in Egypt;...of which flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon, and tl,,- other to Dodona, where with an human voice they acquainted the inhabitants that Jupiter had omfecrated...
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A Classical Dictionary; Containing a Copious Account of All the Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1820 - 892 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt,...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where wim a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had consecrated...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1822 - 840 pages
...mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their Bight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt, one of which flew to (he temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the...
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A Classical Dictionary: Containing a Copious Account of All the Proper Names ...

John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1823 - 892 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in Egypt,...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had consecrated...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 7

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 896 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes in Egypt...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice they acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter bad consecrated...
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A Dictionary of Universal History, Chronology and Historical Biography, etc ...

James Mitchell - Biography - 1823 - 654 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it, was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes in Egypt,...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, thou canst overcome the Romans," or, " I say О son of ЛЗасиз, that the Romans can overcome thee."...
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The United States Literary Gazette, Volume 1

Literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...according to the fables of those times, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves took their flight from Thebes in Egypt ; one of which flew to the temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to the temple of Jupiter at Dodona, in Thessaly or Epirus. In a human voice, they informed the inhabitants...
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The book of fate, formerly in the possession of Napoleon, rendered into Engl ...

1826 - 116 pages
...of the Egyptians mentioned by Herodotus, it was founded by a dove. Two black doves, as he relates, took their flight from the city of Thebes, in •Egypt,...temple of Jupiter Ammon, and the other to Dodona, where with a human voice th ey acquainted the inhabitants of the country that Jupiter had consecrated...
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