Histories

Herodotus

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

  1. “I know the number of the grains of sand and the extent of the sea,
  2. And understand the mute and hear the voiceless.
  3. The smell has come to my senses of a strong-shelled tortoise
  4. Boiling in a cauldron together with a lamb's flesh,
  5. Under which is bronze and over which is bronze.”