Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

In the second place, the country is rainless and frostless; but after snow has fallen, it has to rain within five days[*](It does not seem to be known what authority there is for this assertion.) ; so that if it snowed, it would rain in these lands. And thirdly, the men of the country are black because of the heat.