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... Ctesias.Learning of the Indians - Confucius . Of the original works of the most ancient Phoenicians , Egyptians , and Grecians , no remains . Herodotus not to be relied on - not so Ctesias ...... Catalogue of authorities respecting the ...
... Ctesias.Learning of the Indians - Confucius . Of the original works of the most ancient Phoenicians , Egyptians , and Grecians , no remains . Herodotus not to be relied on - not so Ctesias ...... Catalogue of authorities respecting the ...
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... Ctesias , whose records were based upon the Persian Chronicles , there can be but little doubt that what he represents as true of the ancient As- syrian Empire , is after all no more than what he knew to be true of the Persian . As Mr ...
... Ctesias , whose records were based upon the Persian Chronicles , there can be but little doubt that what he represents as true of the ancient As- syrian Empire , is after all no more than what he knew to be true of the Persian . As Mr ...
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... Ctesias the Cnidian , physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon , king of Persia . As evidence of the ancient learning of the Indians , Clemens Alexan- drinus quotes the authority of Megasthenes . All the remains of it now extant , however , are ...
... Ctesias the Cnidian , physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon , king of Persia . As evidence of the ancient learning of the Indians , Clemens Alexan- drinus quotes the authority of Megasthenes . All the remains of it now extant , however , are ...
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... Ctesias ' Catalogue is received as authentic by Diodo- rus Siculus , by Cephalon , and Castor , by Trogus Pom- peius , Valleius Patercules , and afterwards by Africa- nus , Eusebius , and Syncellus , all of which is corrobo- rated by ...
... Ctesias ' Catalogue is received as authentic by Diodo- rus Siculus , by Cephalon , and Castor , by Trogus Pom- peius , Valleius Patercules , and afterwards by Africa- nus , Eusebius , and Syncellus , all of which is corrobo- rated by ...
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... Ctesias , Zenophon , Aristotle , Strabo , Diodorus Siculus , & c . The value of these authorities , however , may be inferred from the fact , that while Sir Isaac Newton and Sir John Marsham on the one hand , contend " that there were ...
... Ctesias , Zenophon , Aristotle , Strabo , Diodorus Siculus , & c . The value of these authorities , however , may be inferred from the fact , that while Sir Isaac Newton and Sir John Marsham on the one hand , contend " that there were ...
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