 | George Walker - English fiction - 1799
...find a catalogue of gkrioui exploits of a fimilar nature. pretended it was on account of religion, but had he pafled the Hyphafis, he might doubtlefs have...three thoufand fuch as Ajax to the aflault. For they came not into the held to fight thofe who attacked them : but thefe holy men, beloved by the gods,... | |
 | George Walker - English fiction - 1814 - 265 pages
...on account of religion) but had he passed the Hyphasis he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them ; but their cities he could never have taken, though he ha4 led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax to the assault. For they came... | |
 | 1844
...religious considerations. For had he " passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have " made himself master of the country all round " them ; but their cities he could never have " taken, though he had led a thousand as brave " as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax. " to the assault. For they come not... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - Hunting - 1848 - 940 pages
...religious considerations ; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them ; but their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault : for they come not out... | |
 | Robert Blakey - 1854
...passed tne Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all around them ; tut their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or threc thousand^ such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they came not... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Shooting - 1859 - 183 pages
...had he passed the fiyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all around them ; but their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault; for they came not into... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1872
...religious considerations ; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them ; but their cities he could never have taken, though he lrd led a thousand men as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for they... | |
 | English periodicals - 1872
...religious considerations ; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them ; but their cities he could never have takin, thcugh he had led a thousand men as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1881
...passed the Hyphasis, he might " doubtless have made himself master of the country all round him ; " but their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a " thousand as brave as Achilles or ten thousand such as Ajax to "the assault. For they come not out... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888
...people of India, dwelling between the Uyphasis and the Ganges, whose country Alexander never entered : " Their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a thousand аз brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault ; for thoy come nut... | |
| |
These truly wise men dwelt between the rivers Hyphasis and Ganges; their country Alexander the Great never entered, deterred not by the fear of the inhabitants, but, as I suppose, by religious considerations ; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might... 
