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:

  1. “Do not wall or trench the isthmus:
  2. Zeus would have given you an island, if he had wanted to.”