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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 202 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 132 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 56 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 44 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 34 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 28 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Strabo, Geography | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Ulysses, as some say, wandered about Libya, or,
as some say, about Sicily, or, as others say, about the ocean or about the Tyrrhenian
Sea.
And putting to sea from Ilium, he touched at
Ismarus, a city of the Cicones, and captured it in war, and pillaged it, sparing Maro
alone, who was priest of Apollo.As to the adventures of
Ulysses with the Cicones, see Hom. Od. 9.39-66. The
Cicones were a Thracian tribe; Xerxes and his army marched thr to the lotus, see Hdt.
4.177; Polybius xii.2.1, quoted by Athenaeus xiv.65, p. 651 DF;
Theophrastus, Hist. Plant. iv.3.1ff. The tree is the Zizyphus Lotus of
the botanists. Theophrastus says that the tree was common in Libya, that is, in northern Africa, and that an army marching on Carthage subsisted on its fruit alone for several days. The modern name
of the tree is ssodr or ssidr. A whole district in Tripolis is named Ssodria after it. See A. Wiedemann, He