Histories

Herodotus

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

That is how they prepare the dead in the most costly way;[*](tou\s ta\ polutele/stata, sc. boulome/nous. ) those who want the middle way and shun the costly, they prepare as follows.