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Title: Zigzag journeys in the Levant, with a Talmudist story-teller : a spring trip of the Zigzag club through Egypt and the Holy Land
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Butterworth, Hezekiah, 1839-1905
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WINfJKD P.ULL FROM NINF.VEH. Syria was full of cloves. When these dwellers among the rocks came drift-ing down on their white wings into the solitude where the infant had been leftto die, they pTtied the helpless outcast, and, instructed by some good spirit, theyfed it. They continued to feed it daily. So the infant Semiramis was nursedby the doves of Syria. A Syrian shepherd at last discovered the infant, and brought her to theroyal shepherd, whose name was Simmas. He took her into his household,and named her Semiramis. Thus she grew up. She became famous, as she ripened into womanhood,for her beauty. She won the heart of Omnes, one of the kings friends and
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HANGING GARDENS OF HAHVLON. COST OF JOURNEYS IN THE LEVANT. 79 generals, and he married her. She followed him to the army, and at the siegeof Bactra she planned an assault that carried the citadel. She led the assaultin person, and mounted the walls in triumph. She was a heroine now, and regarded as one of the bravest and mostbeautiful women in the world. Ninus, the Assyrian king, admired herbravery and her beauty, and desired to make her his queen. She marriedhim ; and Omnes, her former husband, was so deeply wounded by her desertionof him that he took his own life. She was queen now, and her fame became so great as to shadow the gloryof Ninus. One day, according to the ancient story, she came to the kingwith a request. O king, I have a favor to ask of thee. Thou hast but to ask it, and it shall be thine. What wouldst thou,Semiramis .- I would be Queen of Asia for five days. The request was granted. No sooner had she assumed the royal powerthan she cast the king into prison, and proc

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  • booksubject:Middle_East____Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:Boston___Estes_and_Lauriant
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  • booksponsor:MSN
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