Histories

Herodotus

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

and again Menelaus says to Telemachus:

  1. I was eager to return here, but the gods still held me in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt,
  2. Since I had not sacrificed entire hecatombs to them.
Hom. Od. 4. 351-2