 I hear the man who speaks not. The smell reaches me of a hardskinned tortoise boiled in a copper with lamb's flesh — copper above and copper below." Croesus was awe-struck on receiving this reply. It described with the utmost detail that which he had...  A Child's History of Greece - Page 222by John Bonner - 1857Full view - About this book
 | David Mather Masson - 1851 - 314 pages
...hexameter verse these words, which were brought in writing to Craesus: ' I know the number of the sands, and the measures of the sea; I understand the dumb, and I hear the man that speaks not. The smell reaches me of a hard - shelled tortoise boiled in copper with lamb's flesh—copper... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1869 - 528 pages
...is Croesus new doing?" than she exclaimed, in the accustomed hexameter verse,2 "I know the number of grains of sand, and the measures of the sea: I understand the dumb, and 1 hear the man who speaks not. The smell reaches me of a hardakinned tortoise boiled in a copper with... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1882 - 856 pages
...is Crcesus now doing?" than she exclaimed in the accustomed hexameter verse, " I know the number of grains of sand, and the measures of the sea: I understand the dumb, nnd I hear the man who speaks not. The smell reaches me of a hardskinned tortoise boiled in a copper... | |
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