 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 296 lehte
...• Be'ro, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, priestess of Venus ; Leander, of Abydos, loved her so tenderly that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her ; but being at length unfortunately drowned, she threw hersel: into the sea, through despair Hcrod'otus,... | |
 | Stephen Jones - 1820 - 522 lehte
...animated. , //('«>, a beautiful woman of Scstos in Thrace, and priesteti of Venus, whom Leanderof Abydos loved so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but »t length being unfortunately drowned, she, through despair, threw herself into the sea upon his floating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1822 - 300 lehte
...Fyrrhus He'ro, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, priestess of Venus; Leander, ot Abydos, loved her so tenderly that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but being at length unfortunate' ly drowned, she threw herself into the sea, through despair Herod'otus,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 258 lehte
...He'rp, a beautiful woman of Sestos in Thrace, and priestess of Venus, whom Leander of Abydo* H ES IDA loved so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont...her ; but at length being unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea through despair Hesi'one, the daughter of Laomedon, delivered from a sea-monster... | |
 | James Ross - 1822 - 138 lehte
...married to Pyrrhus. Hero, Herus, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace ^ Leander, of Abydos, loved her so tenderly that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but being at length unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea, through despair. Herodotus,... | |
 | George Fulton - 1826 - 456 lehte
...Pyrrhus He'ro, a beautiful woman of Sestos in Thrace, and priestess of Venus, whom Leander of Abides loved so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her He-rod'o-tus, a very famous historian of Halicarnassus He-roph'i-la, the Erythraean sibyl Her-sil'ia,... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - 1820 - 458 lehte
...HE'RO, a beautiful woman of gestos, in Thrace, priestess of Venus; Leander, of Abydos loved her no tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her ; but being al length unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea, through despair. HEROD'OTUS,... | |
 | Charles N. Baldwin - 1833 - 466 lehte
...Pyrrhus. HE'RO, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, priestess of Venus ; Leander, of Abydos loved her so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her ; but being at length unfortunately drowned, she throw herself into the fea, through despair. HEROD'OTUS,... | |
 | 1837 - 222 lehte
...Hero, a beautiful woman of Sestos, in Thrace, and priestess of Venus j Leander, of Abydos, loved her so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her, and was at last drowned in his passage across. Alone, by night, his watery way he took; About him,... | |
 | Peter Parley - 1839 - 384 lehte
...Pyrrhus. Hero, a beautiful woman of Sestos in Thrace, and priestess of Venus, whom Leander of Abidos loved so tenderly, that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her ; but at length heing unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea through despair. Hesperus, or Vesper, the... | |
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Leander, of Abydos, loved her so tenderly that he swam over the Hellespont every night to see her; but being at length unfortunately drowned, she threw herself into the sea, through despair. 
