The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and herds: the paradise or park was replenished with pheasants, peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars; and the noble game of lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of... Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia - Էջ 42James Silk Buckingham - 1829 - 545 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Dionysius Cassius Longinus, Longinus - 1867 - 230 էջ
...magnificence of Chosroes at his favourite residence of Artemita or Dastagerd, beyond the Tigris. " The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and...sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were maintained for the use or splendour of the Great King... | |
| Thomas Lumisden Strange - 1871 - 422 էջ
...Chosroes. His favourite residence was Artemita, or Destagered. " The adjacant pastures," says Gibbon, " were covered with flocks and herds ; the paradise,...lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the golden pleasures of the chase." In the sixth ceni Wellsted's Travels, by Ormaby. tury the towns of... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 666 էջ
...Artemita, or Dastagerd,.was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of the capital.65 The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and...sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were maintained for the use or splendor of the great king :... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 730 էջ
...Artemita, or Dastagcrd, was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of the capital." The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and...with pheasants, peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild-boars ; and the noble game of lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 674 էջ
...Arterr.ita or Dastagerd, was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty mi lei to the north of the capital.65 The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and...boars, and the noble game of lions and tigers was some times turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 էջ
...Artemita, or Dastagerd, 79 was situate beyond the Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of the capital. 80 The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and...sometimes turned loose for the bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were maintained for the use or splendour of the Great King;... | |
| John Macdonald Kinneir - 2004 - 542 էջ
...the capital. The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks and " herds : GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF " herds: the paradise, or park, was replenished with...and tigers was sometimes turned loose for the bolder plea" sures of the chace. Nine hundred and sixty elephants were main" tained for the use or splendour... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1911 - 646 էջ
...Tigris, about sixty miles to the north of th capital.80 The adjacent pastures were covered with flocks an herds ; the paradise or park was replenished with...peacocks, ostriches, roebucks, and wild boars ; and the nobl game of lions and tigers was sometimes turned loose for th' bolder pleasures of the chase. Nine... | |
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