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Flaccus reported that the Ethiopians of Agesymba, were three months journeying to the south of the Garamantes, and the latter were 5400 of the stadia of Marinus, distant from Cyrene. According to the journal of Maternus, when the king of the Garamantes set off to attack the people of Agesymba, he marched four months to the south.
Marinus Siculus, historian to Charles V., pronounces it a war to avenge ancient injuries received by the Christians from the Moors, to recover the kingdom of Granada, and to extend the name and honor of the Christian religion.* * Lucio Marino Siculo, Cosas Memorabiles de Espana, lib. 20.
170. GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. Larus marinus, Linnaeus. French, "Goeland
The Tyrian, Sidonian, Byblian and Berytian authors, of whom we hear, bear Greek names: and it is impossible to say whether they belonged, in any true sense, to the Phoenician race. Philo of Byblus and Marinus of Tyre are the only two authors of this later period who held to Phoenician traditions, and, presumably, conveyed on to later ages Phoenician ideas and accumulations.
Syria made a Roman province, B.C. 65 Privileges granted by Rome to the Phoenician cities Phoenicia profits by the Roman suppression of piracy, but suffers from Parthian ravages The Phoenicians offend Augustus and lose their favoured position, but recover it under later emperors Mention of the Phoenician cities in the New Testament Phoenicia accepts Christianity Phoenician bishops at the early Councils Phoenician literature at this date Works of Antipater, Apollonius, Philo, Hermippus, Marinus, Maximus, and Porphyry School of law at Berytus Survival of the Phoenician commercial spirit Survival of the religion Summary.
He's made a corduroy road out to it, and he's painted it white and green, and he's been having a sort of fandango out there a house-warming, I take it. Marinus Folts says he never saw so much drinking in his born days. He'd had his full share himself, I should judge. They're coming back to-night." I sat down at this, and stared into the fire.
Now, none of these provinces, only Arabia, Susiana, Persis, Carmania and Gedrosia, bordered upon what the Romans called "The Red Sea," and we "The Indian Ocean"; for the ancients believed that from about twelve degrees south of the sources of the Nile, from a country named by them Agyzimba, there was a continuation of land stretching from Africa to Asia, an opinion entertained by all the old geographers, from Hipparchus to Marinus of Tyre and Ptolemy, and never abandoned, until long after the death of Bracciolini, when the Portuguese under Vasco de Gama, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and hugging the shores of eastern Africa and of Asia, reached India by the sea towards the close of the fifteenth century.
Columbus was received upon his return with the great honour he merited for what he had accomplished. They bade him sit in their presence, which for the Spanish sovereigns is regarded as a proof of the greatest friendship and the highest mark of gratitude. They commanded that henceforward Columbus should be called "Præfectus Marinus," or, in the Spanish tongue, Amiral.
Contemporary with Marinus was Paulus, a native of Tyre, who was noted as a rhetorician, and deputed by his city to go as their representative to Rome and plead the cause of the Tyrians before Hadrian. The literary glories of Tyre culminated and terminated with Porphyry, of whose works we have already given an account.
Marco Polo the Venetian traveller, and Sir John Mandeville, say that they went much farther eastward than was known to Ptolemy and Marinus. Perhaps these travellers do not mention any eastern sea beyond their discoveries; yet from the accounts which they give of the east, it may be reasonably inferred that India is not far distant from Spain and Africa.
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