Histories

Herodotus

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

and then, being a slave there, she established a shrine of Zeus under an oak that was growing there; for it was reasonable that, as she had been a handmaid of the temple of Zeus at Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes , she would remember that temple in the land to which she had come.

After this, as soon as she understood the Greek language, she taught divination; and she said that her sister had been sold in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya by the same Phoenicians who sold her.

I expect that these women were called “doves” by the people of Dodona [20.8,39.55] (Perseus)Dodona because they spoke a strange language, and the people thought it like the cries of birds;