This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ... also sufficient grounds for fixing the date of his existence. He had at that time esta 1 The temple of the Branchidae, at Didyme, in the territory of Miletus, enriched by the offerings of the Lydian Croesus--Translator. 2 Herod, v. 3fi, 125. blished his reputation, and had probably finished his travels, which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 Excerpt: ... also sufficient grounds for fixing the date of his existence. He had at that time esta 1 The temple of the Branchidae, at Didyme, in the territory of Miletus, enriched by the offerings of the Lydian Croesus--Translator. 2 Herod, v. 3fi, 125. blished his reputation, and had probably finished his travels, which therefore preceded those of Herodotus by about half a century. The year of his birth, which has been skilfully worked out for him (Olyrnp. 57. 4, B.c. 549), may not be far from the truth, but the arguments on which it rests are invalid3. Hecataeus without doubt chose to see with his own eyes, and found only erroneous opinions and indolent traditionary belief existing everywhere. One sentence of his expresses this strongly enough: "Hecatceus the Milesian relates thus. I write here what seems to me to be true. But the narratives (aooi) of the Greeks are very numerous, and to my thinking, ridiculous." He composed with great pains books of history, and a system of geography, which he probably accompanied with a chart. It is also a very probable idea that that brasen tablet, which contained an engraved outline of the earth with the whole sea and all the rivers, and which Aristagoras brought with him to Sparta and made the basis of his political demonstration, was constructed upon the system and delineations of Hecatwus (v. 49). Hecatceus was a light in his generation. How little, nevertheless, did he satisfy his successor, who kept his eye almost too severely upon him, seldom indeed with direct blame (vi. 137), but more frequently expressed in general sallies against the lonians, who professed his geographical creed. Perhaps it must ever be the case that we judge most impatiently on matters wherein we see, possibly, a little farther than others. ...
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