 Nothing mortal travels so fast as these Persian messengers. The entire plan is a Persian invention; and this is the method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men, they say, stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which...  Stories of Useful Inventions - Seite 248von Samuel Eagle Forman - 1919 - 272 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Herodotus - 1860 - 586 Seiten
...method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and horse to each day ; and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance... | |
 | Herodotus - 1860 - 588 Seiten
...method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and horse to each day ; and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance... | |
 | Herodotus - 1875 - 588 Seiten
...method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and horse to each day; and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance... | |
 | Annesley William Streane - 1922 - 120 Seiten
...viii. 13. 1 "Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes,...horse to each day ; and these men will not be hindered either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night from accomplishing at their best speed... | |
 | 1903 - 722 Seiten
...method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and horse to each day; and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance... | |
 | Annesley William Streane - 1907 - 140 Seiten
...viii. 13. 1 "Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses. in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes,...horse to each day; and these men will not be hindered either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night from accomplishing at their best speed... | |
 | Irwin St. John Tucker - 1920 - 412 Seiten
...of it: Along thfe whole line of the road there are men, they say, stationed with horses, in number equal to the numb'er of days which the journey takes,...will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best spaced the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or darkness of night.... | |
 | 1923 - 692 Seiten
...method of it. Along the whole line of road there are men (they say) stationed with horses, in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes,...from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. The first rider... | |
 | I. Gershevitch - 1985 - 1030 Seiten
...travels so fast as these messengers" says Herodotus in another context - speaking about the Royal Mail - "and these men will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night. "4 These distinguished... | |
 | Adda Brümmer Bozeman - 606 Seiten
..."nothing mortal."" Along the whole line of the road, he writes, men are stationed with horses in number equal to the number of days which the journey takes, allowing a man and a horse to each day in each season or weather. Thus borne from hand to hand, like the light in the torch race of his Greek... | |
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