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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 96 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Cyropaedia (ed. Walter Miller) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Flavius Josephus, Against Apion (ed. William Whiston, A.M.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Browsing named entities in Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb). You can also browse the collection for Arabia or search for Arabia in all documents.
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK V, chapter 6 (search)
Eastward the country is bounded by Arabia; to the south lies Egypt;
on the west are Phœnicia and the Mediterranean. Northward it commands an extensive
prospect over Syria. The inhabitants are healthy and
able to bear fatigue. Rain is uncommon, but the soil is fertile. Its
products resemble our own. They have, besides, the balsam-tree and the palm.
The palm-groves are tall and graceful. The balsam is a shrub; each branch,
as it fills with sap, may be pierced with a fragment of stone or pottery. If
steel is employed, the veins shrink up. The sap is used by physicians.
Libanus is the principal mountain, and has, strange to say,
CHARACTER OF JUDÆA
amidst
these burning heats, a summit shaded with trees and never deserted by its
snows. The same range supplies and sends forth the stream of the Jordan. This river does not discharge itself into the
sea, but flows entire through two lakes, and is lost in the third. This is a
lake of vast circumference; it resembles the sea, but