 | American Oriental Society - Oriental philology - 1854 - 532 pages
...he prostrated many trees with his tail. And when I saw that he had fallen, I ordered a blacksmith's bellows to be brought, and balls of brass to be heated in the fire and thrust into the mouth of the beast. And when five balls had been thrust into his mouth, the beast closed... | |
 | Pseudo-Callisthenes - 1896 - 698 pages
...behold the stone thereof was of crystal,3 and it shone brightly like silver, 1 The Syriac has (p. 108), "I ordered a smith's bellows to "be brought and balls...into the beast's mouth; and when they had "thrown fire-balls into the mouth, the beast shut its mouth, "and died." 2 In the Syriac version (p. 193, 1.... | |
 | 692 pages
...came to them, it suddenly drew both of the skins into its mouth by its breath and swallowed them. Аз soon as the gypsum entered its belly, we saw that...which was a high mountain, and a river which they call Barsatis (?) went forth from it; and they told us that there was a god in this mountain, and that the... | |
 | Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge - 1968 - 790 pages
...behold the stone thereof was of crystal,3 and it shone brightly like silver, 1 The Syriac has (p. 108), "I ordered a smith's bellows to "be brought and balls...into the beast's mouth; and when they had "thrown fire-balls into the mouth, the beast shut its mouth, "and died." 2 In the Syriac version (p. 193, l.... | |
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this mountain, neither march thou thereon, because "there are mighty gods therein." But I went and drew nigh unto it, and behold the stone thereof was of crystal,3 and it shone brightly like silver, 1 The Syriac has (p. 108), "I ordered a smith's bellows... 