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Again, Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), Asia Arabia is the most distant to the south of all inhabited countries: and this is the only country which produces frankincense and myrrh and casia and cinnamon and gum-mastich. All these except myrrh are difficult for the Arabians to get.
Again, Arabian Peninsula [45,25] (region (general)), Asia Arabia is the most distant to the south of all inhabited countries: and this is the only country which produces frankincense and myrrh and casia and cinnamon and gum-mastich. All these except myrrh are difficult for the Arabians to get.
[2] They gather frankincense by burning that storax
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which
Phoenicians carry to
Greece [22,39] (nation), Europe
Hellas
; they burn this and so get the frankincense; for the spice-bearing trees are guarded by small winged snakes of varied color, many around each tree; these are the snakes that attack
Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa
Egypt
. Nothing except the smoke of storax will drive them away from the trees.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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