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...

Mrs Bennet was a changed person after the marriage of her elder daughters. She visited Mrs Bingley with delighted pride and talked of Mrs Darcy in generous terms. The accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her sensible and amiable and well informed woman for the rest of her life. Mr Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly. His affection for her drew him often to Pemberly. Mr Bingley and Jane remained at Netherfield only for twelve months. So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to his  easy temper or her affectionate heart. The darling wish of his sisters was then gratified; he bought an estate in a neighbouring country to Derbyshire, and Jane and Elizabeth, to their additional happiness, was within thirty miles of each other. Kitty to her advantage spent most of her time with her two elder sisters. In a society more superior to her own, her improvement w...

Elizabeth was in high spirits, and she asked Darcy playfully, "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place? "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun." "My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners - my behaviour to you  was at least always boardering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did." "You may as well call it impertinence at once. It was very little less. The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention. You were disgusted with the women who were always talking, and looking, and thinking of your approbation alone. I roused and interested you, because...

"Dear Lizzy, where can you have been walking to?" asked Jane as soon as she entered the room. As they sat down to the table, others repeated it. She had only to reply that they had wandered about. She coloured as she spoke, but nobody noticed it. The evening passed quietly, without anything to mark. The acknowledged lovers talked and laughed, the  unacknowledged lovers were silent. Darcy was not in a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarassment, there were other evils before. She anticipated what would be felt in the family when her situation became known; she was aware that no one liked but Jane; and even feared that with the others it was dislike which not all his fortune and consequence might do away. At night she opened her heart to Jane. Though suspicion was very far from Miss Bennet's general habits, she was absolutely incredu...

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...

Before many days after the visit of Lady Catherine, Mr Bingley brought his friend Mr Darcy to Longbourn. The gentlemen arrived very early; and before Mrs Bennet had the time to announce the visit of Lady Catherine, Mr Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, suggested that they all go for a walk. Mrs Bennet was not in the habit of walking; Mary could never spare time; but the remaining five set off together. Bingley and Jane, however, allowed the others to outstripp them. They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty and Darcy were to entertain each other. Very little was said by either; Kitty was too much afraid of him to talk; Elizabeth was secretly forming a resolution; and perhaps he might be doing the same. They walked towards the Lucases, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitty left them she went boldly on with him alone. Now was the moment for her resolution to be executed: "Mr Darcy," said she, ...