Histories

Herodotus

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

Otters are found in the river, too, which the Egyptians consider sacred; and they consider sacred that fish, too, which is called the scale-fish, and the eel. These, and the fox-goose[*](Or “Nile-goose.” The Egyptian goose (Chenalopex Aegyptica).) among birds, are said to be sacred to the god of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile.