making contracts, 166; sepulchres |
of the Scythian kings, ib.; funeral
ceremonies, ib. ; favourite concu-
bine, servants, and goods buried with
the king, ib.; fifty attendants kill-
ed and placed on horseback round the
tumulus, ib.; burial of private citi-
zens, 167; manner of purification,
ib.; hatred of foreign customs, 168;
costume, ib.; blinding of slaves, ib.;
mode of milking cattle, ib. ; habit of
taking unmixed wine, and drinking
very hard, ib.; contempt of trade, 169;
difficulty in ascertaining the popula-
tion of Scythia, ib.; cauldron made
from arrow-heads, one being furnish-
ed by every Scythian, ib.; meagre
remains of the Scythian language, ib.
Scythian exiles occupying Tobolsk,
186.
Scythian nomades, 153.
Scythians, Royal, 153.
Sebennytes, 383.
Sebennytic mouth of the Nile, 363.
Segeium, Cape, 227.
Selinus, 93.
Selybria, 132.
Semiramis, gates of, 262.
Senegal, river, 342, 343.
Sennaar, 517.
Sepia, 41.
Sepias Acte, 87.
Serbonis, Lake, 251, 378.
Seriphus, island of, 99.
Sermyle, 118.
Serrhium, Cape, 128.
Sesostris, voyage of, 20; his pillars in
Thrace, 132; pillars in Scythia, 159;
sculptures found in Ionia, 233; iden-
tified by modern travellers, 234; pil-
lars in Palaestine, 251; dug numer-
ous canals in Aegypt, 382; erected
colossi before the temple of Hephaes-
tus, 388.
Sestos, 127.
Siris in Thrace, 130.
Siris in Italy, 178.
Siro-paeones, 130.
Sithonia, 118.
Siwah, 564.
Smila, 119.
Smyrna, 233.
Sogdia, identified with Sogd, or Bok-
hara, 291.
Soldiers, Aegyptian caste of, 483.
Soli, 96.
Soloeis, Cape, 557.
Solymi, 224.
Sparta, city of, 53.
Spercheius, river, 81.
Sphendale, 66.
Sphinx, the great, not mentioned by
Herodotus, 416.
Sporades, or scattered islands, 100.
Stageirus, 131.
Steersmen, Aegyptian caste of, 487.
Stentoris, Lake, 128.
Stenyclerus, town of, 48.
Strabo, denied the possibility of cir-
cumnavigating Africa, 336.
Stratopeda, 373.
Struchates, 289.
Stryme, 128.
Strymon, river, 130; bridge, ib.
Stymphalian lake, 39.
Styra, 108.
Styx, river, 39.
Sun, Herodotus's singular theory con-
cerning it, 357; Aegyptian tradition
concerning its revolution, 358.
Sunium, Cape, 66.
Susa, on the Choaspes, 268; the Mem-
nonium, ib.; stone figure of Darius
on horseback, ib.; identification of
Susa with Sus on the river Kerkhah,
ib.; royal highway to Sardis, 330.
Swineherds, Aegyptian caste of, 486.
Sybaris, 178.
Syene, red granite from, used for lining
and casing stones of pyramids, 397.
Sethon, stone statue of, with a mouse, Syleus, plain of, 131.
Syme, 224.
Syracuse, city of, 92.
Syrgis, river, 185.
SYRIA, 244.
Syria Proper, or Phoenicia and Pa-
laestine, 245; distinction between
the Syrians of Palaestine and the
White Syrians of Cappadocia, and
the Assyrians of Babylonia and Me-
sopotamia, 246; face of the country,
ib.; Libanus and Anti-Libanus, ib.;
valley of the Jordan, ib.; desert of
Syria, ib.
Syrians of Palaestine, or Hebrews.
See PALAESTINE.
Syrians, White, or Cappadocians, 239.
Syrtis, 541.
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Thessaliotis in Thessaly, 85.
THESSALY, general description, 84;
Thessaly Proper, viz. Histiaeotis,
Pelasgiotis, Phthiotis, and Thessali-
otis, 85; two other districts, Mag-
nesia and Malis, ib.; Herodotus's
account; Thessaly anciently a lake,
ib.; outlet at Tempe formed by an
earthquake, ib.; tribes of Thessaly,
86; topography, 87.
Thestes, fountain of, in Irasa, 538, 540.
Thmuites, 383.
Thoes, 542.
Thoricus, 65.
Thornax, Mount, 53.
Thoth, identified with Hermes, 456;
recorded the actions of mankind, 474.
THRACE, its geography illustrative of
the routes of Darius and Xerxes,
122; general description, ib.; He-
rodotus's idea of the magnitude of
Thrace, 124; its frontier towards
Scythia, 125; route taken by Darins,
ib.; route of Xerxes, 127.
Thracians, manners and customs of,
132; peculiar tenets of the Getae,
ib.; belief in the immortality of the
soul, ib.; their deity Zalmoxis, 133;
Greek account of Zalmoxis, ib.; ef-
fect of his teachings on the Thracians,
ib.; his subterranean dwelling and re-
appearance, ib.; Herodotus's opinion,
134; peculiar custom of the Trausi;
mournful births and happy funerals,
ib.; Thracians above Crestonica,
their polygamy, ib.; the favourite
wife killed at her husband's death,
ib.; customs of the Thracians gene-
rally, ib.; sale of children, ib.; pro-
fligacy of the unmarried women, ib. ;
tattooing, ib.; fondness for war, ib. ;
worship of Ares, Dionysus, and Ar-
temis, 135; worship of Hermes, ib. ;
funerals, ib.; sepulchral monuments,
ib.; garments of Scythian hemp, ib.
Thracians from the Strymon, called
Bithynians, 238.
Thriasian Plain, 65.
Thurium, 3.
Thyssagetae, occupying Perm, 185.
Thyssus, 118.
Tiarantus, river, 144; identified with
the Aluta, 145.
Tibareni, 279.
Tibesti Mountains, 566.
Tibisis, river, 132.
Tigris, river, 282.
Timbuctoo, 571.
Tiryns, town of, 41.
Tithorea, 78.
Tmolus, Mount, 230.
Torone, 118.
Trachinian Rocks, 18.
Traders, Aegyptian caste of, 486.
Trapezus, town of, 39.
Traspies, 160.
Trausi, mournful at births but happy
at funerals, 134.
Travus, river, 129.
Trebisonde, 279.
Triballic plain, 136.
Triopium, Dorian confederacy wor-
shipping at, 220.
Tritaea, 45.
Tritea, 79.
Triton, worshipped by the Libyans,
Tritonis, Lake, identified with the salt
lake of El Sibkah, 511.
Troas, 227.
Trochilus, 509.
Troezene, town of, 41.
Trogloditae, Aethiopian, 523; hunted
by the Garamantes, 560; explained
by the modern razzias, 566.
Trophonius, cave and oracle of, 69.
Typhon, his conspiracy against Osiris,
463; overthrown, 465.
Tyras, river, 145; identified with the
Dniester, 147.
Tyre, its ancient temple of Heracles,
247.
Tyrian camp settlement in Aegypt,
247, 390.
Tyritae, 154.
Tyrodiza, 132.
Tyrseni, 176.
Urania, worshipped by the Arabians
under the name of Alilat and Alitta,
320.
Volga, river. See ARAXES.
White Fortress, 390.
White Syrians, or Cappadocians, 239.
Winds, considered by Herodotus to be
fundamental powers of nature, 12;
regarded as peculiar properties of
the soil, 13.
Xerxes, his route through Phocis, 79;
progress through Macedonia, 116;
route of the Persian fleet, ib.; route
of the army, 120; his canal at Athos,
117; catalogue of the nations in his
army and navy, 208, 322; his route
through Asia Minor, 237.
Zabatus Major, river, 282.
Zabatus Minor, river, ib.
Zacynthus, island of, 91.
Zagros, or mountains of Kurdistan,
244.
Zalmoxis, a deity of the Getae, 133;
Greek account, ib.; effect of his
teachings on the Thracians, ib.; his
subterranean dwelling, and re-ap-
pearance, ib.; Herodotus's opinion,
134.
Zancle, town of, 93.
Zaveces, whose women drove the war
chariots, 555.
Zegeries, 512.
Zeus, identified by Herodotus with the
Kneph and Amun of the Aegyp-
tians, 445; especially worshipped in
Thebes, 416; no sheep sacrificed,
ib.; mythic story of Zeus and He-
racles, ib.; horned serpents sacred,
447; temple and oracle of Zeus, ib.;
sacred women, ib.
Zeus, the Lycacan, hill of, 540.
Zona, 128.
Zuila, 565.
Zurrah, Lake, 292.
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