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Euripidis Tragoedia Hippolytus Quam; Latino Carmine Conversam a Georgio Ratallero, Adnotationibus Instruxit Ludov
Euripidis Tragoedia Hippolytus Quam Latino Carmine Conversam a Georgio Ratallero Adnotationibus Instruxit Ludov Author:Euripides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: Luchtmans Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ZOAN, OE TANIS. Zoan is rendered by the Septuagint, Tanin, or Tanis which was a city of Egypt, situated near the mouth of one of the branches of the Nile, thence called CElium Taniticum. It appears to have been one of the most ancient capitals of Egypt. The sacred historian tells us, indeed, that it was built only seven years after Hebron, the chief residence of the patriarch Abraham and his family, Numb. xiii. 22: and that it was one of the royal cities, we gather from the fact that the plagues of Egypt were inflicted " in the field of Zoan." Psa. Ixxvi'ii. 12. Even in the days of Isaiah, it is mentioned as a seat of government. " Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish," Isa. xix. 11. As, however, in verse 13, Noph, or Memphis, is similarly noticed, and as it is certain there were not at that time two kings in such close vicinity, it is supposed that the kings of that period divided their residence between Zoan and Noph, as those of Persia did between Susa and Ecbatana. Bryant and others think that Tanis was too distant from the land of Goshen to have been the scene of the miracles recorded in Exodus, and they look for Zoan at Sais, which Bryant determines to have been situated a little above the point of the Delta, not far from Heliopolis, and therefore bordering close on the land of Goshen. But this is restricting the regions of Goshen within narrower limits than are assigned it by the best authorities whom we have followed in our description of that land; and therefore the Septuagint may be correct. ON, ...« less