 | sir William Smith - 1850 - 858 pages
...Tyrians, who were dissatisfied with Pygmalion's rule. She first went to Cyprus, where she carried off 80 maidens to provide the emigrants with wives, and then...over to Africa. Here she purchased as much land as might be covered with the hide of a bull ; but she ordered the hide to be cut up into the thinnest... | |
 | Edward Litt L. Blanchard - 1852 - 136 pages
...Athens, which he cheerfully did, without a knot. BYRSA, a citadel built by Dido at a very low figure. She purchased as much land as could be covered by a bull's hide, and then cut the hide into small thongs, by which she nibbled a capital estate, and became ground-landlady... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1858 - 946 pages
...Tyrians, who were dissatisfied with Pygmalion's rule. She first went to Cyprus, where she carried off" 80 maidens to provide the emigrants with wives, and then...crossed over to Africa. Here she purchased as much land is might be covered with the hide of a bull ; but ihe ordered the hide to be cut up into the thinnest... | |
 | sir Robert Lambert Playfair - 1878 - 408 pages
...as the site of a mighty city ; how she entered into treaty with the natives, and purchased from them as much land as could be covered by a bull's hide, but craftily cut the hide into the thinnest of strips, and so enclosed a space of 22 stadia, on which she... | |
 | William Smith - 1891 - 950 pages
...Tyrians, who were dissatisfied with Pygmalion's rule. She first went to Cyprus, where she carried off 80 maidens to provide the emigrants with wives, and then...over to Africa. Here she purchased as much land as might be covered with the hide of a bull ; but she ordered the hide to be cut up into the thinnest... | |
 | Sir Robert Lambert Playfair, John Murray (Firm) - 1891 - 458 pages
...as the site of a mighty city ; how she entered into treaty with the natives, and purchased from them as much land as could be covered by a bull's hide, but craftily cut the hide into the thinnest of strips, and so enclosed a space of 22 stadia, on which she... | |
 | Charles Seignobos - 1906 - 400 pages
...Dido (the fugitive). The inhabitants of the country, says the legend, were willing to sell her only as much land as could be covered by a bull's hide; but she cut the hide in strips so narrow that it enclosed a wide territory; and there she constructed a citadel.... | |
 | Serafina Cuomo - 2000 - 252 pages
...Dido had cunningly managed to obtain the land on which Carthage was founded. She had been accorded as much land as could be covered by a bull's hide, but cut the hide into very thin strips, with which she surrounded a huge stretch of territory (again, an... | |
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... a priest of Hercules, and a man of immense wealth. He was murdered by Pygmalion, who coveted his treasures ; but Dido secretly sailed from Tyre with the treasures, accompanied by some noble Tyrians, who were dissatisfied with Pygmalion's rule. She... 