Histories

Herodotus

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

Next to these are the Gyzantes, where much honey is made by bees, and much more yet (so it is said) by craftsmen.[*](cp. Hdt. 7.31, where men are said to make honey out of wheat and tamarisk.) It is certain that they all paint themselves with vermilion and eat apes, with which their mountains swarm.