Arrian
Arrian (known as Flavius Arrianus in Latin) was a historian and philosopher from Nicomedia in Bithynia, who lived in the 2nd century.His works included:
- Anabasis - seven books about Alexander the Great
- Indica - a supplement to the Anabasis describing India and the voyage of Nearchus leading the Greek fleet on the return from India.
Sometimes such terror took possession
knows how wonderful everything seemed to us. If one chanced to go out
visitor from the other world.html">world had lain down to sleep in one's bed.html">bed; and
of the bed, for the Evil One rolled up into a ball! But the chief
life; and whatever he said was so, was so.
I will now tell.html">tell.html">tell you one of his wonderful tales. I know that there are
civil documents, but who, if you were to put into their hand a simple
all their teeth in derision. These people laugh at everything you tell
glory to God that I have lived so long in the world! I have seen
be to our brothers and equals to take snuff, and these folk.html">folk would deny
they won't even tell what it was! There, it is no use talking about
hundred years ago; it was a hamlet.html">hamlet, the poorest kind of a hamlet. Half
scattered here and there about the fields. There was not a yard or a
wealthy lived: and if you had looked for our brothers, the poor--why,
could you tell that a God-created man lived there. You ask why they
raiding Cossack life, and gathered not a little plunder in foreign
wooden house. Many folk were engaged in raids all over the
their own countrymen might make a descent and plunder everything.
appearance. Why he came, and whence, no one knew. He prowled.
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