Histories

Herodotus

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

Thus from Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt to the Tritonian lake, the Libyans are nomads that eat meat and drink milk; for the same reason as the Egyptians too profess, they will not touch the flesh of cows; and they rear no swine.

The women of Shahhat [21.866,32.833] (inhabited place), Al Jabal al Akhdar, Libya, AfricaCyrene, too, consider it wrong to eat cows' flesh, because of the Isis of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt; and they even honor her with fasts and festivals; and the Barcaean women refuse to eat swine too, as well as cows.