| J. R. Smart, B. R. Pridham, Gerald Rex Smith - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...description of their conditions at the beginning of the fourth century BC given by Diodorus of Sicily: 'It is their custom neither to plant grain, set out...custom because they believe that those who possess things are, in order to retain the use of them, easily compelled by the powerful to do their bidding.'... | |
| John F. Healey - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...has neither rivers nor abundant springs from which it is possible for a hostile army to obtain water. It is their custom neither to plant grain, set out...easily compelled by the powerful to do their bidding. Some of them raise camels, others sheep, pasturing them in the desert.... the Nabataeans far surpass... | |
| Robert G. Hoyland - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...out any ftuit-beating ttee, use wine, not consttuct any house; and if anyone is found acting contraty to this, death is his penalty. They follow this custom...because they believe that those who possess these things ate, in otdet to tetain the use of them, easily compelled by the powetful to do theit bidding. Some... | |
| Klaas Dijkstra - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...has neither rivers nor abundant springs from which it is possible for a hostile army to obtain water. It is their custom neither to plant grain, set out...fruit-bearing tree, use wine, nor construct any house. . . . Some of them raise camels, others sheep, pasturing them in the desert. While there are many Arabian... | |
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