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Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 72 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Antiochus Crosses the Arius
The Apasiacae live between the rivers Oxus and Tanais,
The entrance of the Nomad Scythians into Hyrcania.
the former of which falls into the Hyrcanian
Sea, the latter into the Palus Maeotis.Polybius confuses the Tanais (Don) with another Tanais or Iaxartes
flowing into the south-east part of the CaspiaTanais (Don) with another Tanais or Iaxartes
flowing into the south-east part of the Caspian. Both
are large enough to be navigable; and it
seems surprising how the Nomads managed to
come by land into Hyrcania along with their horses. Two
accounts are given of this affair, one of them probable, the
other very surprising yet not impossible. The Oxus rises in
the Caucasus, and being much augmented by tributaries in
BactriTanais or Iaxartes
flowing into the south-east part of the Caspian. Both
are large enough to be navigable; and it
seems surprising how the Nomads managed to
come by land into Hyrcania along with their horses. Two
accounts are given of this affair, one of them probable, the
other very surprising yet not impossible. The Oxus rises in
the Caucasus, and being much augmented by tributaries in
Bactria, it rushes through the level plain with a violent and
turbid stream. When it reaches the desert it dashes its
stream against some precipitous rocks with a force raised to
such tremendous proportions by the mass of its waters, and
the declivity down which it has descended, that it leaps from
the rocks to the plain below leaving
Ah Lyce! though your drink were Tanais,
Your husband some rude savage, you would weep
To leave me shivering, on a night like this,
Where storms their watches keep.
Hark! how your door is creaking! how the grove
In your fair courtyard, while the wild winds blow,
Wails in accord! with what transparence Jove
Is glazing the driven snow!
Cease that proud temper: Venus loves it not:
The rope may break, the wheel may backward turn:
Begetting you, no Tuscan sire begot
Penelope the stern.
O, though no gift, no “prevalence of prayer,”
Nor lovers' paleness deep as violet,
Nor husband, smit with a Pierian fair,
Move you, have pity yet!
O harder e'en than toughest heart of oak,
Deafer than uncharm'd snake to suppliant moans!
This side, I warn you, will not always brook
Rain-water and cold sto
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More), Book 2, line 193 (search)
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace (ed. C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley), book 1, That all, but especially the covetous, think their own condition the hardest. (search)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 2, line 193 (search)