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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 2 | 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 Mediterranean Sea or search for Mediterranean Sea in all documents.
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Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb), BOOK
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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