Histories
Herodotus
Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).
- “I know the number of the grains of sand and the extent of the sea,
- And understand the mute and hear the voiceless.
- The smell has come to my senses of a strong-shelled tortoise
- Boiling in a cauldron together with a lamb's flesh,
- Under which is bronze and over which is bronze.”