he tells stories of the Thousand and One Nights, and conjures up before us the bazaars of Damascus.

The positivist tells us that when we say this we are only expressing our present emotion.

The poems are, the epigraph tells us, the `` traces of an ancient flame '' ; ;

The famous author tells us of the strange incident in Something About Myself.

Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.

On the one hand Tacitus ' Germania tells us ( Chapters 38, 39 ) that they occupy more than half of Germany, use a distinctive hair style, and are spiritually centered on the Semnones.

Julius Caesar in Gallic Wars tells us ( 1. 51 ) that Ariovistus had gathered an army from a wide region of Germany, but especially the Harudes, Marcomanni, Triboci, Vangiones, Nemetes and Sedusii.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Diodorus Siculus tells us that upon the assassination of the tyrant Jason of Pherae, in 370 BC, his brother Polydorus ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander, another brother.

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

This is unlikely as Bede tells us that they were all slaughtered by the Saxons under Cædwalla.

At both Chalcis and Athens Plutarch tells us that there was an Amazoneum or shrine of Amazons that implied the presence of both tombs and cult.

We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it ; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new aggregation ( synkrisis ) and disruption ( diakrisis ).

For Hume, we assume that experience tells us something about the world because of habit or custom, which human nature forces us to take seriously.

He was " a former soldier and a Greek " ( miles quondam et graecus ), he tells us, and his enrollment among the elite protectores domestici ( household guards ) shows that he was of noble birth.

History tells us that Out-of-home advertising and billboards are the oldest forms of advertising.

Of its four stanzas, Housman tells us that two were ' given ' him ready made ; one was coaxed forth from his subconsciousness an hour or two later ; the remaining one took months of conscious composition.

St Gregory tells us little of these years.

Romanus, he twice tells us, served the saint in every way he could.

The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus tells us the crisis had almost persuaded Nero to abandon Britain.

Herodotus explicitly tells us that the Greeks attacked the Persians ( and the other sources confirm this ), but it is not clear why they did this before the arrival of the Spartans.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

Pausanias also tells us that:

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

The Roman author Vitruvius, relying on the writings ( now lost ) of Greek authors, tells us that the ancient Greeks believed that their Doric order developed from techniques for building in wood in which the earlier smoothed tree trunk was replaced by a stone cylinder.

The priest tells K. that the parable is an ancient text of the court, and many generations of court officials have given interpretations.

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.

Pampinea tells the second tale of the day, which is a very ancient tale.

The Book of Ether tells of an ancient people ( the Jaredites ), descendants of Jared and his companions who were led by God to the Americas shortly after the confusion of tongues and the destruction of the Tower of Babel.

An ancient Hebrew legend tells that the sea flooded the world and when it reached the shore of Acre it stopped short, as is written in the Book of Job ( 38: 11 ) “ Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further .” In the legend, the Hebrew words “ Ad po ” become “ Ad ko ,” and, hence, Akko.

He tells us that he follows " the ancient right of hereditary service ," and that his father and grandfather " were recognized frequenters of your renowned sire's ( Valdemar I ) war camp.

The resulting hills are known as tells, and are found throughout the ancient Near East.

The resultant hills, known as tells, are found throughout the ancient Near East.

Set around 1400 B. C., it tells the story of a group of Northmen who visit the ancient Mediterranean on a trading mission and become embroiled in intrigues between the rising power of Troy and the mistress of the Mediterranean, Crete.

For ancient Greeks, the island was sacred to Hephaestus, god of metallurgy, who — as he tells himself in Iliad I. 590ff — fell on Lemnos when Zeus hurled him headlong out of Olympus.

When Billy first meets him, Shazam tells Billy that his name is an acronym for six ancient heroes.

Māori tradition tells of the ancient people Kahui Tipua building a canoe, Arai Te Uru, which sailed from southern New Zealand to the ancestral Polynesian homeland, Hawaiki, to obtain kumara.

He tells his daughter Promethea to flee into the desert, hoping the gods of the ancient world will preserve her.

This story may have been made up by the English poet Michael Drayton, but the leek has been known to be a symbol of Wales for a long time ; Shakespeare, for example, refers to the custom of wearing a leek as an “ ancient tradition ” in Henry V. In the play, Henry tells Fluellen that he is wearing a leek “ for I am Welsh, you know, good countryman .” The 1985 and 1990 British one pound coins bear the design of a leek in a coronet, representing Wales.

He tells Link that Majora's Mask has an evil, apocalyptic power inside, which was once used by an ancient tribe in hexing rituals.

Another ancient quest tale, Homer's Odyssey, tells of Odysseus, whom the gods have cursed to wander and suffer for many years before Athena persuades the Olympians to allow him to return home.

The last major reference in Lovecraft's fiction to Azathoth was in 1935's " The Haunter of the Dark ", which tells of " the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws.

" The ancient story tells the tale of a young man, Marchete, who stays as a guest of a wealthy couple.

The Viļāni museum tells about the history of Viļāni from the ancient times to nowadays.