The White Horses of the West of England: With Notices of Some Other Ancient Turf-Monuments (Classic Reprint)
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (540 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1333872542 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 56 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nor is there any sort of augury to which more importance is at tached - both in the minds of the people and also in that of the nobles and priests - for they imagine them selves to be the servants, but the others the favourites of the gods (se enifm mimistros deorwm, illos conscios patent).About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. VII., 55) of sacred horses as passing over the Hellespont immediately before Xerxes himself. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. Some five centuries later, Tacitus tells us in his treatise, De Maribas Gama/norms These people have certain horses, which are kept in their sacred groves, untouched and free from any sort of mortal labour (candide' et nullo mortali Opera contacti); and when they are harnessed to the sacred chariot, the priest and the king, or the chief man of the city, go with them and observe their neighings and whinnyings. Cyrus is