Histories

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  The Histories of Herodotus
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  Now it happened that this Candaules was in love…
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  In this way he carried on the war with the Milesians…
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  When all these conquests had been added…
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  Now it chanced that while he was making…
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  At the end of this time the grief of Croesus was…
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  Of all the answers that had reached him…
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  Such was the prophecy uttered under a divine…
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• CD 2
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  Such was the man’s account of what he had seen.
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  Afterwards, on the refusal of Alyattes to give up his...
  10:17
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  Thus the siege began. Meanwhile Croesus, thinking…
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  Then, the Lydians say that Croesus…
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  The Lydians have very nearly the same customs...
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  The distance from Lake Maeotis to the river Phasis…
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  When the boy was in his tenth year…
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  Afterwards, when Cyrus grew to manhood…
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  Thus after a reign of thirty-five years, Astyages…
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  Immediately after the conquest of Lydia…
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  These, then, were all the Aeolian cities…
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  Meanwhile Mazares, after he had recovered Pactyas…
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  The Caunians, in my judgment, are dwellers there…
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  The city is divided into two portions by the river…
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  She gave orders for the hewing of immense blocks…
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  Among many proofs which I shall bring forward…
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  The Babylonians have one most shameful custom.
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  Now concerning the matter in hand, my judgment…
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  Book Two: Euterpe
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  From Heliopolis to Thebes is nine days’ sail…
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  My judgment as to the extent of Egypt is confirmed…
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  No other information on this head could I obtain…
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  Concerning Egypt itself I shall extend my remarks…
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  Such Egyptians as possess a temple of the Theban…
  10:41
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  Almost all the names of the gods came into Greece…
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  At Heliopolis and Buto the assemblies…
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  In the neighbourhood of Thebes…
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  The Egyptians are averse to adopt Greek customs…
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  The former of these two cities…
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  The king then returned to his own land…
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  In these places Homer shows himself acquainted…
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  When it came to the king’s ears that the thief’s body…
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  After Chephren, Mycerinus (they said), son of…
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  He was succeeded on the throne…
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  It is open to all to receive whichever he may prefer…
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  I have already made mention more than once…
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  The cantons of the Calascirians are different…
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  To the other temples of much note…
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  Book Three: Thalia
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  On the field where this battle was fought...
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  The Icthyophagoi on reaching this people…
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  And now Cambyses, who even before had not been…
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  Many other wild outrages of this sort did Cambyses…
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  The Corinthians likewise very willingly lent…
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  This was the first expedition into Asia…
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  At this time he said no more; but twenty days…
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  Otanes, when he saw Darius so hot…
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  And now when five days were gone…
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  And now, when the morning broke, the six Persians…
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  The way in which the Indians get the plentiful…
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  Now with respect to the vipers and the winged…
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  Of the seven Persians who rose up…
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  Polycrates, however, making light of all the counsel…
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  On these terms Democedes applied his art…
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  Poor Syloson felt at the time that he had given…
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  After the armament of Otanes had set sail…
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  Book Four: Melpomene
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  Hereupon he strung one of his bows — up to that…
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  Crossing the Panticapes, and proceeding eastward…
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  To me it seems that the cold may likewise…
  6:45
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  The Persians inhabit a country upon the southern…
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  The Euxine sea, where Darius now went to war…
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  The sixth stream is the Hypacyris, a river rising…
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  Whenever the Scythian king falls sick…
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  Scylas, likewise, the son of Ariapithes…
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  The manner in which these distances…
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  I for my part neither put entire faith in this story…
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  The manners of the Androphagi are more savage…
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  The Sauromatae speak the language of Scythia…
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  To this message Idanthyrsus, the Scythian king…
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  The Ionians now held a council.
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  Theras now, having with him a certain number…
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  Battus, you came to ask of your voice; but Phoebus…
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  At Samos, meanwhile, Arcesilaüs was collecting…
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  On the country of the Nasamonians borders…
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  As far as the Atlantes the names of the nations…
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  The Carthaginians also relate the following…
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  Book Five: Terpsichore
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  King Darius was full of wonder both at what they…
  10:25
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  Now that the men of this family are Greeks, sprung…
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  So Aristagoras went to Sardis and told Artaphernes…
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  Now the Mytileneans had no sooner got Coës…
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  Cleomenes, however, was still king when Aristagoras…
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  When Aristagoras left Sparta he hastened to Athens…
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  By descent they were Pylians, of the family…
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  Meanwhile Cleomenes, who considered himself…
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  Such is the account given by the Athenians.
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  The Bacchiadae had possessed this oracle for some…
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  On the return of Hippias to Asia from Lacedaemon…
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  While Onesilus was engaged in the siege…
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  In the thick of the fight, Stesanor, tyrant…
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  Book Six: Erato
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  Thus spake the Persians. The Ionian tyrants…
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  Such a fate now befell the Milesians…
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  Histiaeus now led a numerous army…
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  When he had finished carrying the wall across…
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  The year after these events, Darius received…
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  Such are their privileges in war…
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  In course of time Ariston died…
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  Afterwards, when it came to be known what evil…
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  When however he reached that city…
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  Afterwards the Aeginetans fell upon the Athenian…
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  First he was chased as far as Imbrus…
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  Miltiades by these words gained Callimachus…
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  Now the Alcmaeonidae fell in no way short…
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  After the defeat inflicted at Marathon…
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  Book Seven: Polymnia
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  ‘Persians, I shall not be the first to bring in…’
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  When Mardonius had in this way softened…
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  But when night came, again the same vision stood…
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  Now the manner in which they dug…
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  Then they, whose business it was…
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  Then Artabanus, the king’s uncle…
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  On the next day the horsemen began the passage…
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  The Sarangians had dyed garments…
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  Such were the nations who fought upon the dry…
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  (vi.) The Lycians furnished fifty ships.
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  ‘O king! Since you ask me by all means…’
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  The Satrae, so far as our knowledge goes…
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  On reaching Therma Xerxes halted his army…
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  This conduct on the part of the Spartans…
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  Themistocles had before this given a counsel which…
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  For my own part I cannot positively say whether…
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  Hereupon Gelo, seeing the indignation…
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  The Cretans, when the envoys sent to ask aid…
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  At Alpeni, which is lower down than that place…
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  The fleet then, as I said, on leaving Therma…
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  At the point where this city is built…
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  Then the Medes, having met so rough a reception…
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  The remembrance of this answer, I think…
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  Thus fought the Greeks at Thermopylae.
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  Book Eight: Urania
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  The Greeks, at a signal, brought the sterns of…
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  And now Themistocles chose out the swiftest sailers…
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  From Doris they marched forward into Phocis…
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  From the mainland of Greece beyond…
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  As soon as they had come, and before Eurybiades…
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  Reinforced by the contingents of all these various…
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  ‘The Athenian commander has sent me to you…’
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  Far the greater number of the Persian ships…
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  The Athenians say that Adeimantus, the Corinthian…
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  Thus did the king ask Artemisia’s counsel…
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  At present, however, he dissembled…
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  The Persians, having journeyed through Thrace…
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  When this town had fallen, Artabazus pressed…
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  Mardonius, when he had read the answers given…
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  Book Nine: Calliope
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  At last the ambassadors got an answer…
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  What follows was recounted to me by Thersander…
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  When the cavalry reached the camp…
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  All these, except the Helots — seven of whom…
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  With Mardonius also, who was very eager to begin…
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  After Mardonius had put his question about…
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  As soon as Pausanias saw a portion of the troops…
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  As Pausanias offered his prayer, the Tegeans…
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  On the side of the barbarians, the greatest courage…
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  There was a man at Plataea among the troops…
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  The Greeks, after sharing the booty upon the field…
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  A strange thing happened to this man’s father…
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  After Leotychides had made this address…
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  The barbarians who escaped from the battle...
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  Meanwhile the Greeks, who had left Mycale…
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