Histories
Herodotus
Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
Then, as they themselves say, the priestess gave them this answer in iambic verse:
- “Do not wall or trench the isthmus:
- Zeus would have given you an island, if he had wanted to.”