Classics Retold

Updated 01/11/2024 Below Ptolemais of Hunts , at a distance of about three thousand stadia from Berenice there is Adulis , a port established by law, lying at the inner end of a bay that runs in toward the south. Before the harbour lies the so called Mountain island, about two hundred stadia sea-ward from the very head of the bay, with the shores of the mainland close to it on both sides. Ships bound for this port now anchor here because of attacks from land. They used formerly to anchor at the very head of the bay, by an island called Diodorus , close to the shore, which could be reached on foot from the land; by which means the barbarous natives attacked the island. Opposite Mountain island, on the mainland twenty stadia from shore, lies Adulis, a fair sized village from which there is a three days'journey to Coloe , an inland town and the first market for ivory. From that place to the city of the people called Auxumites , there is a five days' journey more; to that place a...

Updated on 15/11/2024 The previous point was Berenice Troglodytica, on Egyptian coast of Red Sea. On the right-hand coast next below Berenice is the country of Berbers. Along the shore are the Fish-Eaters, living in scattered caves in the narrow valleys. Further inland are the Berbers, and beyond them the Wild Flesh-Eaters and the Calf-Eaters, each tribe governed by its chief; and behind them, further inland, in the country toward the west there lies a city called Meroe. My Search:- 1. Berbers: Here means the natives of Northeastern Africa, between Red Sea and the River Nile upto Somalia.They are also known as Imazighen, meaning free man. They speak Berber languages, which belongs to Afroasiatic language family. The language has 300 dialects. Mainly nomadic, and move about with their herds, but some of them have taken to farming. Greeks referred to them as Barbaroi, which is derived from Arabic word "Barbara" meaning to babble noisily or to babble or jabber. Arabs did not und...

The unknown navigator, still in Opone ( modern day Hafun)is moving forward. Beyond Opone , the shore trending more toward the south, first there are the small and great bluffs of Azania, this coast is destitute of harbours, but there are places where ships can lie at anchor, and the shore being abrupt; and this course is of six days; the direction being south west. Then come small and great beach for another six days' course and after that in order, the Courses of Azania, the first being called Sarapion and the next Nicon ; and after that several rivers and other anchorages, one after the other, separately a rest and a run for each day, seven in all, until Pyralae  islands and what is called the Channel ; after which a little to the south of the southwest, after two courses of a day and night along the Ausanitic coast, is the island Menuthias, about three hundred stadia from the mainland, low and wooded, in which there are rivers and many kinds of birds and the mountain tortoise...

After Darcy and the Colonel had departed, Lady Catherine had been walking listlessly in the garden, brooding over what her nephews told her. She would stop and look for Collins who had accompanied the two gentlemen to bid them goodbye. When he returned she told her that she felt very dull and wished them all to dine with her. Elizabeth could not see Lady Catherine, without recollecting that, had she chosen it, she might by this time have been presented to her future niece, nor could she think, without a smile, of what her ladyship's indignation would have been.  "What would she have said? how would she have behaved?" were questions with which she amused herself. The first subject was the diminution of the Rosings party.  "I assure you, I feel it exceedingly," said Lady Catherine, "I believe no one feels the loss of friends so much as I do.  But I am particularly attached to these young men, and know them to be so much attached to me!  They were excessively ...

Darcy's letter did not contain a renewal of his offers. Elizabeth did not have any expectation either. But as she went through the letter eagerly, conflicting emotions passed through her.  His views on Jane's insensitivity towards Mr Bingley is false. Darcy's account of Mr Wickham surprisingly agree with what the latter himself had given.  This agreement very much astonished Elizabeth.  In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do.  In half a minute the letter was unfolded again, and she began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Mr Wickham.  The account of his connection with Pemberly family was exactly what he had related himself; the kindness of the late Mr Darcy, agreed equally with his own words.  But in the case of the will related to living there was a duplicity on one side or other.  But, of his designs on Miss Darcy, ( Georgina) received some confirmation from what had p...

Elizabeth awoke the next morning to the same thoughts which had at length closed her eyes. She could not recover from the surprise of what had happened; it was impossible to think of anything else.  Soon after breakfast, she resolved to indulge herself in air and exercise.  She was proceeding directly to her favourite walk, when the recollection of Mr Darcy's sometimes coming there stopped her, and instead of entering the park, she turned up the lane, which led farther from the turnpike-road.  The park paling was still the boundary on one side, and she soon passed one of the gates into the ground. After walking along the part of the lane, she was tempted by the pleasant morning to stop at the gate and look into the park. It had been five weeks she was in Kent, and every day added to the lush green of trees. Suddenly, she got a glimpse of Mr Darcy within the grove which edged the park. As he was moving towards her, she began to retreat.  But he was near enough to see ...

Sir William stayed only a week at Hunsford, but his visit was long enough to convince him of his daughter's being most comfortably settled, and of her possessing such a husband and such a neighbour as were not often met with.  While William was with them, Mr Collins devoted his morning to driving him out in his jig, and showing him the country; but when he went away, the whole family returned to their usual employments, and Elizabeth was thankful to find that they did not find more of his cousin by the alteration, for the chief of time between breakfast and dinner was now passed by him either at work in the garden or in reading and writing, and looking out of the window of his own book room. Very few days passed in which Mr Collins did not walk to Rosings.  Charlotte also did not think it necessary to go likewise.  Now and then they have honoured with a call  from her ladyship. She examined into their employments, and looked at their work, and advised them to do it d...