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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 42 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Aristotle, Politics | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More) | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Homer, Odyssey | 28 | 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 Crete (Greece) or search for Crete (Greece) in all documents.
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK V, chapter 2 (search)
As I am
about to relate the last days of a famous city, it seems appropriate to
throw some light on its origin.
Some say that the Jews were fugitives
from the island of Crete, who settled on the nearest
coast of Africa about the time when Saturn was
driven from his throne by the power
of Jupiter. Evidence of this
is sought in the name. There is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the
neighbouring tribe, the Idæi, came to be called Judæi by a
barbarous lengthening of the national Crete called Ida; the
neighbouring tribe, the Idæi, came to be called Judæi by a
barbarous lengthening of the national name. Others assert that in the reign
of Isis the overflowing population of Egypt, led by
Hierosolymus and Judas, discharged itself into the neighbouring countries.
Many, again, say that they were a race of Ethiopian origin, who in the time
of king Cepheus were driven by fear and hatred of their neighbours to seek a
new dwelling-place. Others describe them as an Assyrian horde who, not
having sufficient territory, took possession of part of Egypt, and founded cities of their own in what i