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    Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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    CXXXVIII. Her temple is of this description: except for the entrance, it stands on an island; for two channels approach it from the Nile without mixing with one another, running as far as the entryway of the temple, the one and the other flowing around it, each a hundred feet wide and shaded by trees. [2] The outer court is sixty feet high, adorned with notable figures ten feet high. The whole circumference of the city commands a view down into the temple in its midst; for the city's level has been raised, but that of the temple has been left as it was from the first, so that it can be seen into from above. [3] A stone wall, cut with figures, runs around it; within is a grove of very tall trees growing around a great shrine where the image of the goddess is; the temple is a square, each side measuring an eighth of a mile. [4] A road, paved with stone, about three eighths of a mile long leads to the entrance, running eastward through the marketplace, towards the temple of Hermes; this road is about four hundred feet wide, and bordered by trees reaching to heaven. Such is this temple.


    There are a total of 7 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
    book 2 (general note)
    book 2, chapter 138 (general note)
    book 2, chapter 138, section 4 (general note)

    Cross references from Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges:
    1324 [GENITIVE OF MATERIAL OR CONTENTS]: estrômenê esti hodos lithou

    Cross references from William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb:
    685 [Infinitive in Indirect Discourse.]
    807 [Simple Infinitive and Infinitive with tou, after Verbs of Hindrance, etc.]

    Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
    41, 523 [ton kai ton, to kai to, ta kai ta.]

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    Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
    OCLC: 1610641
    ISBN: 0674991303, 0674991311, 0674991338, 0674991346

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