 | Edward Clodd - 1900 - 250 pages
...Phoenician script be no exception to this, search must be made for its earlier forms. Tradition asserted that " the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves...admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt." So says Eusebius, and the same tradition has currency among classic authorities from Plato to Tacitus,... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1923 - 860 pages
...explained by means of pictorial ALPHABET 187 ideograms. Traditions were current from Plato to Tacitus that ' the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves...but admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt ; ' while in modern times not a few attempts nad been vainly made to derive the several Phoenician... | |
 | Moustafa Gadalla - 2007 - 320 pages
...Isaac Taylor's book, The History of the Alphabets, Vol. I [pg 83], separates the facts from fiction: The tradition of the ancient world, which assigned...may suffice to quote the words of Tacitus, who says, "Prim i per figures animalium Aegyptii sensus mentis effingebant; (ea antiquissima monimenta memoriae... | |
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Sanchuniathon, from which we gather that the Phoenicians did not claim to be themselves the inventors of the art of writing, but admitted that it was obtained by them from Egypt. 